Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:42:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/18/01 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: 7bit The following was compiled by Sue Ricciardi for the seven observers. Gene _________________ Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 18, 2001 0715-1500 AM: partly sunny, 68 degrees, winds variable 3 knots PM: partly sunny, 82 degrees, winds NNW 2 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Jonatan Alderfer, Stan Arnold, Greg Futral, Marshall Iliff, Sue Ricciardi, Bill Schreitz, Sherman Suter Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 25 Great Blue Heron 11 Great Egret 1 Cattle Egret 12 (flyovers) Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 1 American Black Duck 12 Mallard 595 Blue-winged Teal 4 Northern Shoveler 1 Green-winged Teal 9 Hooded Merganser 1 (adult female) Ruddy Duck 1 (male) Osprey 23 Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *15 Killdeer 8 *AMERICAN AVOCET *46 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *8 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *416 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *10 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *5 (1 adult, 4 juvenile) *SANDERLING *2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile) *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *788 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *28 *LEAST SANDPIPER *102 peep sp. 1310 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *28 *STILT SANDPIPER *30 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *76 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *3 *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 433 One of the Laughing Gulls was leucistic. It was primarily white with the structure of a Laughing Gull. The bill and legs were black. The primaries were dull brown with white edges and there was a creamy secondary bar. There was a buff wash on the head and down the central breast. Ring-billed Gull 126 Herring Gull 143 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 1st-summer, 1 3rd-summer) Great Black-backed Gull 760 Caspian Tern 260 Common Tern 3 (2 adult, 1 1st-summer) Forster's Tern 31 *LEAST TERN *110 *BLACK TERN *2 Mourning Dove 22 Chimney Swift 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 15 Horned Lark 1 Purple Martin 4 Tree Swallow 14 Bank Swallow 445 Barn Swallow 113 Carolina Wren 5 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 7 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 75 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 7 Common Yellowthroat 12 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 45 Swamp Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 10 Bobolink 5 Red-winged Blackbird 190 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 Orchard Oriole 3 House Finch 15 American Goldfinch 9 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 2 (1 alive, 1 dead) BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 Spicebush Swallowtail 2 Cabbage White 8 Orange Sulphur 50 Gray Hairstreak 6 American Lady 1 Painted Lady 7 Red Admiral 1 Red-spotted Purple 1 Viceroy 1 Monarch 19 Common Sootywing 4 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 20 Seaside Dragonlet 2 (male) Common Whitetail 1 (male) Blue Dasher 1 Wandering Glider 5 Carolina Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 8 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================