Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:59:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 12/09/00 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 December 9, 2000 0710-1445 AM: sunny, 35 degrees, winds N 10K PM: mostly sunny, 45 degrees, winds N 5K Route: Figure-8 (8 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison, Sue Ricciardi, Danny Bystrak, Greg Futral, Kevin Graff NOTE: NO SNOWY OWL *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 2 loon sp. 2 *GREAT CORMORANT *4 (2 1st-year, 2 unknown) cormorant sp. 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Canada Goose 34 Mute Swan 37 American Black Duck 23 Mallard 62 Northern Shoveler 1 Green-winged Teal 1 (male) Ringed-neck Duck 1 (female) Greater Scaup 30 Lesser Scaup 1200 scaup sp. 12 diving duck sp. 5000 (distant flock in flight, mostly scaup sp., with some Canvasbacks) Bufflehead 50 Red-breasted Merganser 3 (1 M, 1 F, 1 unknown) Ruddy Duck 5 Bald Eagle 1 (adult) Northern Harrier 4 (immature) Red-tailed Hawk 4 (3 adult, 1 unknown) American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) Killdeer 8 *DUNLIN *6 Bonaparte's Gull 44 Ring-billed Gull 70 Herring Gull 10 Great Black-backed Gull 1 *SHORT-EARED OWL *4 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 6 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 4 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 4 Carolina Wren 1 Marsh Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 2500 *AMERICAN PIPIT *4 Common Yellowthroat 3 Eastern Towhee 7 *AMERICAN TREE SPARROW *10 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 15 Fox Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 129 Swamp Sparrow 28 White-throated Sparrow 10 White-crowned Sparrow 11 *SNOW BUNTING *127 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 53 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 13 American Goldfinch 26 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 2 (Woolly Bears) 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================