Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:21:53 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/12/01 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 12, 2001 NORTH AMERICAN MIGRATION COUNT 2400-0200: rail survey 70 degrees, winds SW 10K Route: original Miller and Hart "islands" (4 miles) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison NO RAILS HEARD 0630-1700 AM: sunny, 70 degrees, winds SW 10K PM: partly sunny, 90 degrees, winds W 10K Route: Reverse figure-9 (7 miles) Woodland spur (1 mile) Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Ralph Cullison, John Maloney, Don Burggraf, Drew Thornblad NOTE: 94 SPECIES LARGE FALLOUT OF SONGBIRDS *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 92 Great Blue Heron 23 Snowy Egret 3 Glossy Ibis 8 Canada Goose 12 Gadwall 3 (2 male, 1 female) American Black Duck 2 Mallard 90 (52 M, 31 F, 7 young) Greater Scaup 6 (male) Osprey 9 Northern Harrier 1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 2 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *10 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *21 Killdeer 37 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *6 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *8 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *6 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *18 *RED KNOT *2 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *4 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 *LEAST SANDPIPER *40 peep sp. 73 *DUNLIN *164 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *1 (breeding plumage) Ring-billed Gull 43 Herring Gull 1310 *LESSER BLACK-BLACKED GULL *1 (first-summer) Great Black-backed Gull 253 Caspian Tern 157 *ROYAL TERN *2 Mourning Dove 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 (1 male, 1 undetermined) Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 7 *LEAST FLYCATCHER *1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 10 White-eyed Vireo 2 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 6 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 9 Purple Martin 2 (1 male, 1 female) Tree Swallow 30 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 23 Carolina Chickadee 1 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Veery 4 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 13 Northern Mockingbird 5 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 9 *AMERICAN PIPIT *1 Cedar Waxwing 11 *NASHVILLE WARBLER *1 *NORTHERN PARULA *2 *YELLOW WARBLER *24 *CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER *5 (3 male, 2 female) *MAGNOLIA WARBLER *14 *BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER *7 (4 male, 3 female) *YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER *4 (Myrtle) *BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER*1 *BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER *1 (male) *BLACKPOLL WARBLER *2 *BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER *7 *AMERICAN REDSTART *30 *OVENBIRD *2 *NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH *4 *COMMON YELLOWTHROAT *30 *WILSON'S WARBLER *2 (male) Scarlet Tanager 4 (3 male, 1 female) Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 37 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 3 (1 male, 2 female) *ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK *1 (male) Red-winged Blackbird 110 Common Grackle 8 (Purple) Orchard Oriole 3 1 M, 1 F, 1 1st-spring M) House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 13 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES Painted Turtle 8 AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 1 Bullfrog 1 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 2 (male) dark swallowtail sp. 21 Cabbage White 2 Clouded Sulphur 1 Orange Sulphur 8 Spring Azure 1 lady sp. 6 Red Admiral 5 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 4 dragonfly 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================