Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:12:54 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 10/14/00 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island October 14, 2000 0715-1700 AM: sunny, 60 degrees, winds SW 2K PM: partly sunny, 75 degrees, winds SW 10K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Drew Thornblad *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 27 Great Blue Heron 9 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (juvenile) Canada Goose 67 Mute Swan 2 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 20 Ring-necked Duck 1 (male) Ruddy Duck 16 (7 male, 9 female) Northern Harrier 3 (2 immature, 1 unknown) American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 (juvenile; tundrius) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *20 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 7 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *4 *SANDERLING *7 *LEAST SANDPIPER *9 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *3 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *2 *DUNLIN *4 Ring-billed Gull 255 Herring Gull 97 Great Black-backed Gull 91 Caspian Tern 1 Rock Dove 1 (banded) Mourning Dove 47 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 7 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 6 American Crow 1 Tree Swallow 250 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 3 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 225 American Pipit 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 7 (1 Yellow, 6 Western) Common Yellowthroat 2 Eastern Towhee 6 (1 M, 1 F, 4 unknown) Field Sparrow 7 Savannah Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 47 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 18 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 3 (Slate-colored) Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 33 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 10 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES *NORTHERN BLACK RACER *1 (NEW FOR ISLAND) BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 85 Orange Sulphur 215 Cloudless Sulphur 1 *WHITE M HAIRSTREAK *1 Gray Hairstreak 4 American Snout 3 Variegated Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 4 anglewing sp. 2 Mourning Cloak 2 Painted Lady 1 Common Buckeye 12 Monarch 28 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 2 (Wooly Bears) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 77 Ailanthus Webworm Moth 2 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 2 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================