Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:02:35 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 11/18/00 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, stubblef@umbi.umd.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island November 18, 2000 0705-1420 AM: sunny, 35 degrees, winds WNW 20K PM: mostly sunny, 50 degrees, winds WSW 5K Route: Figure-8 (8 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Greg Futral, Ron Polniaszek, John Maloney, John Stubblefield *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 1 *GREAT CORMORANT *1 (older than 1st-year) Great Blue Heron 5 Gadwall 4 (3 male, 1 female) American Black Duck 38 Mallard 92 Northern Shoveler 2 (1 male, 1 female) Northern Pintail 3 (male) Lesser Scaup 1 (female) Long-tailed Duck 1 (male) Bufflehead 59 (38 male, 21 female) Common Merganser 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 19 Northern Harrier 3 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 (adult) Merlin 2 Peregrine Falcon 3 (2 adult, 1 juvenile) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 12 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *10 *LEAST SANDPIPER *11 *DUNLIN *17 Ring-billed Gull 22 Herring Gull 6 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Rock Dove 2 Mourning Dove 93 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 (Yellow-shafted) Blue Jay 1 Carolina Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 European Starling 1650 *AMERICAN PIPIT *2 Cedar Waxwing 27 Palm Warbler 1 (Western) Eastern Towhee 2 Chipping Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 11 Song Sparrow 47 *LINCOLN'S SPARROW *1 White-throated Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 1 *SNOW BUNTING *55 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 100 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 6 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Orange Sulphur 3 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 1 (Woolly Bear) Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================