Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:24:34 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 04/07/01 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 April 7, 2001 0715-1550 AM: cloudy, foggy, 60 degrees, winds NE 10K PM: cloudy, shower, 55 degrees, winds SE 15K Route: Figure-8 (8 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Danny Bystrak *SPECIES OF NOTE *COMMON LOON *30 (fly by) *LOON SP. *33 (fly by, in the fog) Horned Grebe 6 Double-crested Cormorant 79 Great Blue Heron 9 Canada Goose 14 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 57 Blue-winged Teal 2 (1 male, 1 female) Northern Shoveler 2 (1 male, 1 female) Green-winged Teal 5 (2 male, 3 female) Canvasback 3 (1 male, 2 female) Greater Scaup 7 (6 male, 1 female) Lesser Scaup 16 Common Goldeneye 10 (female) Bufflehead 8 (5 male, 3 female) Red-breasted Merganser 3 (2 male, 1 female) Ruddy Duck 1 (male) Osprey 15 Northern Harrier 12 (3 m, 5 f, 2 imm, 2 unk) American Kestrel 3 (1 male, 2 female) Peregrine Falcon 1 American Coot 1 Killdeer 10 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *DUNLIN *2 *COMMON SNIPE *1 Bonaparte's Gull 67 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull 59 Great Black-backed Gull 52 Caspian Tern 114 Mourning Dove 5 Belted Kingfisher 1 (female) Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 7 (Yellow-shafted) Blue Jay 1 Fish Crow 8 Tree Swallow 59 N. Rough-winged Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 8 Carolina Wren 2 Winter Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 (Myrtle) Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 22 Song Sparrow 43 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 19 White-crowned Sparrow 3 (immature) Dark-eyed Junco 1 (Slate-colored) Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 112 *RUSTY BLACKBIRD *2 Common Grackle 3 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 6 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 4 AMPHIBIANS Southern Leopard Frog 1 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland mailto:.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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================