Date:         Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:50:22 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 08/11/01
Comments: To: Steve Kopecky <steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil>,
          Jim Stasz <jlstasz@aol.com>, Jim Potyraj <potyrajj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>,
          Jeff Cowell <jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com>,
          Donna Finnegan <toadlady@fls.infi.net>,
          Dave Brinker <dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Butch Norden <bnorden@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Anne Brooks <birdfeeder@starpower.net>
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The following past report is posted for the observers:

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
August 11, 2001
0720-1210
AM: cloudy, 75 degrees, winds ENE 3 knots
PM: partly cloudy to mostly sunny, 90 degrees, winds ENE 3 knots
Route: Reverse Figure-9 shortened (6 miles)
Observers: Jim Stasz, Kevin Graff

 Pied-billed Grebe          1 (juvenile)
 Double-crested Cormorant   13
 Great Blue Heron           8
 Canada Goose               14
 American Black Duck        8
 Mallard                    280
 Lesser Scaup               1 (male)
 Hooded Merganser           1 (female)
 Ruddy Duck                 1 (male)
 Osprey                     12
 Cooper's Hawk              1
 American Kestrel           1 (male)
 Peregrine Falcon           1 (adult male)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER       1
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER       *8
 Killdeer                   10
*AMERICAN AVOCET           *34
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS         *622
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER        *4
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER         *12
*RUDDY TURNSTONE           *2
*SANDERLING                *3
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER    *997
*WESTERN SANDPIPER         *125
*LEAST SANDPIPER           *107
 peep sp.                   1500
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER    *4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER        *8
*STILT SANDPIPER           *48
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER    *197
 Laughing Gull              64
 Ring-billed Gull           45
 Herring Gull               185
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL  *3 (1 1st-S, 1 2nd-S, 1 3rd-S)
 Great Black-backed Gull    1139
 Caspian Tern               238
 Forster's Tern             28
*LEAST TERN                *133
 Mourning Dove              10
 Chimney Swift              2
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
 Downy Woodpecker           1
 Eastern Kingbird           8
 Purple Martin              56
 Tree Swallow               7
 N. Rough-winged Swallow    2
 Bank Swallow               8
 Barn Swallow               60
 Carolina Wren              2
 House Wren                 3
 Marsh Wren                 1
 American Robin             3
 Gray Catbird               12
 Northern Mockingbird       4
 European Starling          55
 White-eyed Vireo           1
 Red-eyed Vireo             1
 Yellow Warbler             8
 Common Yellowthroat        11
 Song Sparrow               33
 Swamp Sparrow              7
 Northern Cardinal          1
 Indigo Bunting             1
 Bobolink                   9
 Red-winged Blackbird       221
 Common Grackle             13
 Brown-headed Cowbird       14
 House Finch                8
 American Goldfinch         5

MAMMALS
 Red Fox                    fresh tracks
 large canid sp.            fresh tracks
 Raccoon                    fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES
 Black Swallowtail          1
 Cabbage White              10
 Clouded Sulphur            3
 Orange Sulphur             8
 Variegated Fritillary      1
 Monarch                    20

DRAGONFLIES
 Common Green Darner        4
 Blue Dasher                2
 Wandering Glider           6
 Carolina Saddlebags        1
 Black Saddlebags           4
________________________

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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