Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:18:39 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 04/29/01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, John Maloney, Joan Decarli, and I visited Hart-Miller Island this morning (Sun., 29 April 01). We tallied 50 species; shorebirds were a bit disappointing, with 7 species seen. Also, we found 5 species of warbler and 4 of sparrow. The tally: Double-crested Cormorant 50 Great Blue Heron 10 Turkey Vulture 1 Canada Goose 11 Gadwall 9 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 25 Osprey 6 Bald Eagle 1 imm Northern Harrier 1 Am. Kestrel 2 Black-bellied Plover 10 Killdeer 6 Greater Yellowlegs 12 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 20 Dunlin 14 Ring-billed Gull not counted Herring Gull not counted Great Black-backed Gull not counted Caspian Tern 42 Mourning Dove 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Crow, sp. 3 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 40 NRW Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 12 Carolina Wren 1 E. Bluebird 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling 4 N. Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 7 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 15 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 8 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird not counted Common Grackle 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 1 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Interesting place. It was fun going through the visitor's log to see all of the Ospreyers that have visited within the past year. Stan Arnold Glen Burnie blackrail@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================