Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:25:37 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 04/22/01 Comments: To: birdfeeder@starpower.net, BNORDEN@dnr.state.md.us, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, Jlstasz@aol.com, potyrajj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu, steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil, toadlady@fls.infi.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island April 22, 2001 0710-1500 AM: sunny, 60 degrees, winds SW 5K PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds S 5K Route: Reverse figure-9 (6 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Danny Bystrak *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 84 Great Blue Heron 10 Canada Goose 29 Gadwall 9 American Black Duck 1 Black Duck/Mallard Hybrid 1 (M paired w/ F Black Duck) Mallard 47 (30 male, 17 female) Green-winged Teal 4 (1 male, 3 undetermined) Greater Scaup 2 (male) Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 1 (1 male, 1 female) Osprey 14 Bald Eagle 1 (adult) Northern Harrier 2 (1 female, 1 undetermined) Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 2 (male) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 10 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *8 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *3 *LEAST SANDPIPER *4 peep sp. 19 *DUNLIN *2 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 Bonaparte's Gull 22 Ring-billed Gull 34 Herring Gull 254 Great Black-backed Gull 83 Caspian Tern 164 *ROYAL TERN *2 Rock Dove 1 Mourning Dove 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted, male) Eastern Kingbird 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 14 crow sp. 4 Purple Martin 1 (male) Tree Swallow 32 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 7 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 3 Northern Mockingbird 5 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 12 Yellow Warbler 8 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 (Myrtle) Common Yellowthroat 9 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 18 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 20 White-crowned Sparrow 12 Northern Cardinal 3 (2 male, 1 female) Red-winged Blackbird 70 Common Grackle 3 (2 Purple, 1 undetermined) Brown-headed Cowbird 7 (2 male, 5 undetermined) Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 3 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Southern Leopard Frog 1 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 7 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 8 American Lady 3 lady sp. 3 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================