Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:59:57 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 10/21/00 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 21, 2000 0715-1635 AM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds SW 5K PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds SSW 5K Observer: Gene Scarpulla *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 7 Double-crested Cormorant 12 Great Blue Heron 7 Canada Goose 77 Mute Swan 2 Gadwall 1 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 54 Green-winged Teal 1 Ruddy Duck 29 (17 male, 12 female) Northern Harrier 2 (1 male, 1 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) Peregrine Falcon 1 (juvenile; tundrius) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *3 Killdeer 7 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1 *SANDERLING *14 *LEAST SANDPIPER *4 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *12 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 24 Herring Gull 63 Great Black-backed Gull 202 Mourning Dove 14 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 4 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 1 Tree Swallow 80 Tufted Titmouse 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 5 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 1000 American Pipit 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 4 (3 Yellow, 1 Western) Common Yellowthroat 1 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 7 Savannah Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 57 *LINCOLN'S SPARROW *1 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 6 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 2 (Slate-colored) Red-winged Blackbird 80 *EASTERN MEADOWLARK *2 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 8 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 61 Clouded Sulphur 1 Orange Sulphur 108 Pearl Crescent 1 anglewing sp. 4 American Lady 2 Red Admiral 4 Common Buckeye 11 Monarch 12 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 41 (Wooly Bears) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 92 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 2 Eastern Pondhawk 1 Ruby Meadowhawk 1 DAMSELFLIES Familiar Bluet 13 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================