Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:11:15 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/04/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks , Jeff Boltz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 4, 2001 0715-1410 AM: cloudy, 75 degrees, winds SW 10 knots PM: mostly sunny, 85 degrees, winds SW 5 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Zack Baer, Jeff Boltz, Danny Bystrak, Marian Dodson, Lynette Fullerton, Matt Hafner, Sue Ricciardi, Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz Double-crested Cormorant 23 Great Blue Heron 16 Snowy Egret 1 (immature) *TRICOLORED HERON *1 Green Heron 2 Canada Goose 14 American Black Duck 9 Mallard 256 Northern Pintail 1 Green-winged Teal 2 Canvasback 1 (male) Ruddy Duck 3 Osprey 17 Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 2 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *7 Killdeer 9 *AMERICAN AVOCET *28 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1213 (several hundred swimming) *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *3 *WILLET *1 (Western juvenile) *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *13 *UPLAND SANDPIPER *1 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *6 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *3864 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *32 *LEAST SANDPIPER *33 peep sp. 1220 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *3 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *7 *STILT SANDPIPER *87 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *137 Laughing Gull 20 Ring-billed Gull 93 Herring Gull 202 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (1 1st-S, 1 2nd-S, 1 3rd-S) Great Black-backed Gull 1356 Caspian Tern 192 Common Tern 4 Forster's Tern 116 small Sterna tern sp. 100 *LEAST TERN *199 Mourning Dove 8 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Downy Woodpecker 2 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 13 Purple Martin 214 Tree Swallow 30 N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 150 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 25 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 18 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 10 Yellow Warbler 23 Common Yellowthroat 10 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 80 Swamp Sparrow 8 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 4 Red-winged Blackbird 282 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 14 House Finch 21 American Goldfinch 6 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES Painted Turtle 2 AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 1 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 16 Orange Sulphur 14 Little Yellow 1 Monarch 14 Sachem 2 MOTHS Yellow-collared Scape Moth 3 Ailanthus Webworm Moth 1 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 1 Wandering Glider 6 Black Saddlebags 3 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 4 CORRIGENDUM: 07/28/01 Song Sparrow 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================