Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:11:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/20/01 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 20, 2001 0705-1645 AM: mostly cloudy, foggy, 65 degrees, winds E 20K PM: cloudy, foggy, showers, 60 degrees, winds E 20K Route: Reverse figure-9 (7 miles) Woodland spur (0.5 mile) Observer: Gene Scarpulla NOTE: poor shorebird viewing conditions due to weather *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 18 Great Blue Heron 22 Glossy Ibis 1 Canada Goose 15 American Black Duck 3 Mallard 90 (81 M, 53 F, 43 young) Osprey 15 Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *2 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *77 Killdeer 36 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *33 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 *WILLET *2 (1 Eastern, 1 unknown) *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *22 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *8 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *665 *LEAST SANDPIPER *39 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 peep sp. 1000 *DUNLIN *492 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *5 (griseus) shorebird sp. 2000 Ring-billed Gull 8 Herring Gull 872 *LESSER BLACK-BLACKED GULL *5 (3 1st-sum, 2 2nd-sum) Great Black-backed Gull 294 Caspian Tern 164 *ROYAL TERN *2 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 2 Mourning Dove 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 6 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 5 Tree Swallow 220 Bank Swallow 50 Barn Swallow 129 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 7 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 1 Yellow Warbler 19 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 17 Scarlet Tanager 2 (male) Song Sparrow 24 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 141 Common Grackle 10 (Purple) Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 4 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 ADDENDUM: 05/12/01 (MAY COUNT) *HOODED WARBLER *1 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 These raise the species total for 05/12/01 to 96. This is most likely the highest one-day species total for Hart-Miller Island. There are no total species figures for the early island surveys. 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 =======================================================================