Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 13:31:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 12/23/00 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 23, 2000 0750-1500 AM: sunny, 18 degrees, winds WNW 5K PM: sunny, 28 degrees, winds WNW 5K Route: Figure-9 (6 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison (Part of Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count) *SPECIES OF NOTE Pied-billed Grebe 1 Mute Swan 11 American Black Duck 67 Mallard 26 Canvasback 112 Redhead 18 Lesser Scaup 60 scaup sp. 1100 Common Goldeneye 87 Bufflehead 88 Red-breasted Merganser 23 (15 M, 8 F) Ruddy Duck 2 Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Northern Harrier 4 (1 male, 3 immature) Red-tailed Hawk 2 (adult) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) Virginia Rail 2 Bonaparte's Gull 36 Ring-billed Gull 122 Herring Gull 11 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Mourning Dove 26 Great Horned Owl 1 *SHORT-EARED OWL *2 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 1000 *AMERICAN PIPIT *9 Eastern Towhee 6 (5 male, 1 female) American Tree Sparrow 3 Savannah Sparrow 16 Song Sparrow 213 Swamp Sparrow 9 White-throated Sparrow 45 White-crowned Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 1 *SNOW BUNTING *80 Northern Cardinal 2 (1 male, 1 female) Red-winged Blackbird 44 American Goldfinch 3 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================