Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:29:40 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 07/21/01 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 Sue, Jim, and Carol. =20 Gene _____________ Observations at Hart-Miller Island July 21, 2001 0720-1500 AM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds SE 2 mph PM: mostly sunny, 85 degrees, winds SE 5 mph Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Carol Erwin, Sue Ricciardi, Jim Stasz Double-crested Cormorant 12 Great Blue Heron 13 Great Egret 5 Green Heron 9 Canada Goose 30 Wood Duck 2 American Black Duck 8 Mallard 284 (including 31 young) Blue-winged Teal 1 (male) Canvasback 1 (male) Osprey 10 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *21 Killdeer 10 *AMERICAN AVOCET *23 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *801 *SPOTTEED SANDPIPER *14 (including several young) *SANDERLING *1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *725 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *355 *LEAST SANDPIPER *755 peep sp. 200 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *7 *STILT SANDPIPER *12 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *320 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 150 Ring-billed Gull 227 Herring Gull 298 Great Black-backed Gull 1224 gull sp. 100 Caspian Tern 214 Common Tern 4 Forster's Tern 8 Common/Forster's sp. 20 Least Tern 26 Mourning Dove 13 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Willow Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Fish Crow 2 Horned Lark 1 (juvenile) Purple Martin 19 Tree Swallow 35 Bank Swallow 136 Barn Swallow 45 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 5 Marsh Wren 6 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 24 Yellow Warbler 11 Common Yellowthroat 11 Song Sparrow 21 Swamp Sparrow 4 (including 1 juvenile) Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 65 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Finch 10 American Goldfinch 8 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 38 Clouded Sulphur 1 Orange Sulphur 42 Gray Hairstreak 1 Eastern Tailed Blue 1 Variegated Fritillary 1 Red Admiral 4 Monarch 9 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 2 Seaside Dragonlet 1 Needham's Skimmer 2 Wandering Glider 19 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 4 =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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================