Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:33:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 10/07/00 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, pollen@optometry.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island October 7, 2000 0710-1700 AM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds NNW 10K PM: mostly sunny, 65 degrees, winds NNW 15K AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY Field Trip Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Danny Bystrak, Dick Pollen, Sandy Pollen *SPECIES OF NOTE Pied-Billed Grebe 3 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 9 Canada Goose 38 American Wigeon 1 American Black Duck 5 Mallard 63 Green-winged Teal 1 Ruddy Duck 8 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 *AMERICAN KESTREL *23 *MERLIN *5 Peregrine Falcon 2 (1 adult, 1 unknown) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *14 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 4 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *58 *SANDERLING *77 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *4 *LEAST SANDPIPER *34 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *2 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *9 *DUNLIN *18 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 Ring-billed Gull 17 Herring Gull 234 Great Black-backed Gull 361 Caspian Tern 3 Rock Dove 12 Mourning Dove 22 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 6 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 8 Blue Jay 22 Tree Swallow 96 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 105 American Pipit 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 8 (5 Yellow, 3 Western) Common Yellowthroat 6 Eastern Towhee 4 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 11 Song Sparrow 30 *LINCOLN'S SPARROW *1 (NEW ISLAND SPECIES #275) (found by Danny Bystrak) Swamp Sparrow 9 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 75 Brown-headed Cowbird 25 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 22 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES (most streaming southward) Cabbage White 18 Clouded Sulphur 7 Orange Sulphur 57 Gray Hairstreak 2 Pearl Crescent 1 anglewing sp. 18 Mourning Cloak 6 Red Admiral 2 Common Buckeye 18 Monarch 283 MOTHS *ISABELLA TIGER MOTH *several Wooly Bears (NEW FOR ISLAND) Virginia Ctenucha Moth 42 *YELLOW-COLLARED SCAPE MOTH *1 (NEW FOR ISLAND) DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES (most streaming southward) Common Green Darner 23 *RUBY MEADOWHAWK *17 (NEW FOR ISLAND) Black Saddlebags 48 dragonfly sp. 90 damselfly sp. 50 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================