Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:07:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 11/11/00 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 November 11, 2000 0715-1645 AM: cloudy, 55 degrees, winds NNW 25K PM: partly sunny, 60 degrees, winds N 25K Route: Figure-8 (8 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Sue Ricciardi, Danny Bystrak, Mary Chetelet *SPECIES OF NOTE *RED-THROATED LOON *2 Common Loon 8 Double-crested Cormorant 3 *GREAT CORMORANT *1 (older than 1st-year) Great Blue Heron 5 Black Vulture 5 Turkey Vulture 4 Canada Goose 14 *BRANT *10 Mute Swan 2 Tundra Swan ? (heard flyover flock) swan sp. 19 (probable Mute) Gadwall 4 American Black Duck 34 Mallard 74 Northern Shoveler 5 Northern Pintail 2 (male) Ringed-neck Duck 4 (2 male, 2 female) Greater Scaup 29 Bufflehead 9 (3 male, 6 female) Ruddy Duck 27 Bald Eagle 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) Northern Harrier 4 (1 male, 3 immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 (adult) accipiter sp. 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 (adult) Peregrine Falcon 3 (2 juvenile tundrius) (1 unknown) Virginia Rail 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 8 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LEAST SANDPIPER *1 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *2 (1 juvenile, 1 unknown) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *1 *DUNLIN *24 Laughing Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 5 Herring Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 49 Forster's Tern 43 Mourning Dove 73 *SHORT-EARED OWL *1 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 365 *AMERICAN PIPIT *3 Cedar Waxwing 8 Palm Warbler 1 (Yellow) Eastern Towhee 4 Savannah Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 84 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-throated Sparrow 13 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 5 (Slate-colored) *LAPLAND LONGSPUR *2 *SNOW BUNTING *20 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 90 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 25 House Finch 40 American Goldfinch 24 MAMMALS Muskrat fresh tracks Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 2 Orange Sulphur 24 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 22 (Woolly Bear) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================