Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:05:17 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 11/04/00 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, tara.wallace@noaa.gov, tallison@mc.cc.md.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island November 4, 2000 0715-1700 AM: partly sunny, 55 degrees, winds 0 K PM: partly cloudy, 70 degrees, winds NW 10K Route: Figure-8 (8 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, Tara Wallace, Tanya Allison *SPECIES OF NOTE *RED-THROATED LOON *6 Common Loon 5 Double-crested Cormorant 7 *GREAT CORMORANT *3 (2 adult, 1 1st-year) Great Blue Heron 5 Canada Goose 25 Mute Swan 6 Gadwall 4 American Black Duck 16 Mallard 68 Northern Shoveler 2 (1 male, 1 female) Northern Pintail 1 (male) Green-winged Teal 3 Lesser Scaup 1 *BLACK SCOTER *1 (male; head and wings only) Ruddy Duck 44 Bald Eagle 1 (unknown age) Northern Harrier 4 (1 male, 3 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 4 (1 juv, tundrius) (1 juv, tundrius, dead) (2 unknown) Virginia Rail 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *4 Killdeer 6 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *2 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *22 *SANDERLING *22 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 (juvenile) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *2 *DUNLIN *19 Laughing Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 34 Herring Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 122 Forster's Tern 1 Mourning Dove 21 *SHORT-EARED OWL *1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 (Yellow-shafted) Blue Jay 1 American Crow 3 Horned Lark 1 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 873 Cedar Waxwing 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 1 (Western) Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 10 *FOX SPARROW *1 (Red) Song Sparrow 353 Swamp Sparrow 42 White-throated Sparrow 27 White-crowned Sparrow 32 Dark-eyed Junco 6 (Slate-colored) *LAPLAND LONGSPUR *8 *SNOW BUNTING *89 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 116 Brown-headed Cowbird 12 Common Grackle 3 (Purple) House Finch 28 American Goldfinch 19 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 29 Orange Sulphur 171 Variegated Fritillary 3 Red Admiral 1 Common Buckeye 10 Monarch 8 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 1 (Woolly Bear) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 85 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 2 Ruby Meadowhawk 1 DAMSELFLIES Familiar Bluet 3 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================