Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:28:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/30/00 Comments: To: birdfeeder@starpower.net, BNORDEN@dnr.state.md.us, d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, Jlstasz@AOL.COM, steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil, toadlady@fls.infi.net, voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 30, 2000 0720-1700 AM: sunny, 50 degrees, winds NE 5K PM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds SW 5K Observer: Gene Scarpulla *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 1 Pied-Billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 88 Great Blue Heron 17 Canada Goose 102 Mallard 26 Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Northern Shoveler 46 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *31 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *5 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *5 Killdeer 20 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *30 Spotted Sandpiper 2 *WHIMBREL *1 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *5 *SANDERLING *24 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *9 *LEAST SANDPIPER *32 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *13 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *41 Ring-billed Gull 71 Herring Gull 224 Great Black-backed Gull 312 Caspian Tern 74 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 30 Belted Kingfisher 1 (male) Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 3 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 3 Tree Swallow 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 33 *AMERICAN PIPIT *2 Palm Warbler 10 (6 Yellow, 4 Western) Common Yellowthroat 2 Eastern Towhee 2 Savannah Sparrow 18 Song Sparrow 17 Red-winged Blackbird 140 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 8 MAMMALS Muskrat fresh tracks Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Cabbage White 52 Clouded Sulphur 3 Orange Sulphur 104 Gray Hairstreak 4 Variegated Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 3 Painted Lady 1 Common Buckeye 7 Monarch 26 Wild Indigo Duskywing 2 orange skipper sp. 4 Virginia Ctenucha Moth 23 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================