Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:24:30 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/25/01 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 Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 25, 2001 0715-1500 AM: partly cloudy, 75 degrees, winds NE 5 knots PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds E 5 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Gwen Brewer, Danny Bystrak, Ralph Cullison, Carol Erwin, Laura Field, Tom Field, George Jett, Joel Martin, Sue Ricciardi, Gene Scarpulla, Bill Sefton, John Stubblefield Double-crested Cormorant 33 Great Blue Heron 14 Snowy Egret 1 Green Heron 2 Canada Goose 115 American Black Duck 39 Mallard 618 Mallard/domestic hybrid 2 Blue-winged Teal 4 Green-winged Teal 10 Hooded Merganser 1 (female) Osprey 11 Bald Eagle 4 (1 adult, 3 immature) Northerh Harrier 4 (1 adult female, 3 unknown) Cooper's Hawk 1 *LARGE ACCIPITER sp. *1 (JUVENILE) (This bird was observed twice in flight. George Jett took several photographs. The photographs should be back in about two weeks for analysis. I will post the identification if and when made.) Peregrine Falcon 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *5 Killdeer 6 *AMERICAN AVOCET *51 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *836 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *6 *MARBLED GODWIT *1 (Yes Norm, they do exist!) *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *216 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *2 *LEAST SANDPIPER *322 peep sp. 42 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *3 *STILT SANDPIPER *13 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *49 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *3 Laughing Gull 150 Ring-billed Gull 155 Herring Gull 144 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 1st-S going to 2nd-W, 1 Ad-S) Great Black-backed Gull 987 Caspian Tern 229 *ROYAL TERN *1 small Sterna sp. 1 *BLACK TERN *2 Rock Dove 14 Mourning Dove 24 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 13 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 13 Purple Martin 3 Bank Swallow 222 Barn Swallow 22 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 4 Marsh Wren 4 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 170 Cedar Waxwing 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 7 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Song Sparrow 15 Swamp Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Blue Grosbeak 4 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 32 Red-winged Blackbird 42 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 25 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 6 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 Checkered White 1 Cabbage White 14 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 70 Little Yellow 10 Variegated Fritillary 2 Pearl Crescent 1 Mourning Cloak 1 Red Admiral 3 Red-spotted Purple 4 Monarch 44 Common Sootywing 6 skipper sp. 3 MOTHS tiger moth sp. 1 (George Jett took photographs for possible later ID.) DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 27 Calico Pennant 1 Eastern Pondhawk 1 Common Whitetail 4 Needham's Skimmer 2 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 2 Wandering Glider 10 Black Saddlebags 73 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 11 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================