Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:57:25 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/05/01 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 May 5, 2001 0720-1515 AM: cloudy, hazy, 65 degrees, winds 0 PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds NE 15K Route: Reverse figure-9 (6 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Danny Bystrak *SPECIES OF NOTE Common Loon 5 Double-crested Cormorant 47 Great Blue Heron 28 Glossy Ibis 2 Canada Goose 8 Mute Swan 6 Gadwall 4 (2 male, 2 female) American Black Duck 2 Black Duck/Mallard Hybrid 1 (male) Mallard 44 (26 M, 14 F, 4 young) Greater Scaup 3 (male) Osprey 7 Peregrine Falcon 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 Killdeer 7 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *7 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *5 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *5 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *12 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *2 *LEAST SANDPIPER *25 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *DUNLIN *6 Ring-billed Gull 48 Herring Gull 2167 *LESSER BLACK-BLACKED GULL *1 (adult summer) Great Black-backed Gull 236 Caspian Tern 132 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 White-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 2 crow sp. 11 Purple Martin 1 (male) Tree Swallow 35 Bank Swalllow 2 Barn Swallow 12 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 4 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 6 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 18 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 16 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 22 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 93 Common Grackle 8 (Purple) Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (male) Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 5 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 (dead, partially eaten) Red Fox 1 REPTILES Painted Turtle 3 AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 2 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 7 Orange Sulphur 3 Spring Azure 3 lady sp. 3 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================