Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:13:25 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 07/14/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The following is posted for the six listed observers. Gene _____________ Observations at Hart-Miller Island July 14, 2001 0705-1500 AM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds NW 10-15 mph PM: partly cloudy, 82 degrees, winds NW 10-15 mph Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Stan Arnold, Gwen Brewer, Danny Bystrak, Eric Gofreed, George = Jett, Sue Ricciardi Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 19 Great Egret 1 Green Heron 2 Glossy Ibis 1 Canada Goose 15 American Wigeon 1 American Black Duck 11 Mallard 407 Ruddy Duck 1 Osprey 22 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) Killdeer 15 American Avocet 23 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1020 *SPOTTEED SANDPIPER *14 (including 3 young) *LEAST SANDPIPER *477 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *53 Laughing Gull 42 Ring-billed Gull 889 Herring Gull 178 Great Black-backed Gull 882 *MYSTERY GULL It was smaller than a Herring Gull, but larger than a Ring-billed Gull. = It was darker than a Herring Gull, but lighter than a Great Black-backed = Gull - closest to a Lesser Black-backed Gull. The yellow bill had a red = spot and a black spot near the tip. It had a dark eye. The head was = unstreaked. There were no white spots on the black primaries. The feet = were yellowish, but the legs seemed a pale pink. None of us could say = definitively that there was any yellow on the legs. Caspian Tern 102 *ROYAL TERN *6 Mourning Dove 8 Chimney Swift 1 Willow Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 8 Fish Crow 1 crow sp. 2 Purple Martin 8 Tree Swallow 706 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 65 Cliff Swallow 2 Barn Swallow 342 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 7 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 11 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 13 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 18 Song Sparrow 21 Swamp Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 3 Red-winged Blackbird 128 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 9 House Finch 20 American Goldfinch 10 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 REPTILES Painted Turtle 4 BUTTERFLIES dark swallowtail sp. 2 Checkered White 1 Cabbage White 68 Clouded Sulphur 5 Orange Sulphur 19 anglewing sp. 1 lady sp. 1 Red Admiral 4 Monarch 3 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 3 *COMET DARNER *1 (new for island) Needham's Skimmer 25 Wandering Glider 5 Black Saddlebags 3 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 5 =20 ______________ Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@home.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================