Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:45:11 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/01/01 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 September 1, 2001 0710-1655 AM: cloudy, 75 degrees, winds NW 10 knots PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds S 2 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Stan Arnold, Tyler Bell, Jeff Boltz, Jane Kostenko, Sue Ricciardi, Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz Double-crested Cormorant 46 Great Blue Heron 14 Green Heron 2 Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 12 Mallard 602 Blue-winged Teal 27 Northern Shoveler 12 Northern Pintail 2 Green-winged Teal 21 Hooded Merganser 1 (female) Osprey 8 Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shoulder Hawk 1 (immature) *MERLIN *1 (female) Peregrine Falcon 1 *SORA *1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *3 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *4 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *9 Killdeer 1 *AMERICAN AVOCET *23 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *2 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *898 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *5 *MARBLED GODWIT *1 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *3 (juvenile) *SANDERLING *4 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *114 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *5 *LEAST SANDPIPER *38 peep sp. 500 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *22 *STILT SANDPIPER *7 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *44 *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *2 (winter plumage) *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *2 (winter plumage) *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *1 (winter plumage) Laughing Gull 73 Ring-billed Gull 87 Herring Gull 139 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (third-summer) Great Black-backed Gull 1503 Caspian Tern 208 *ROYAL TERN *4 Common Tern 2 (adult) Forster's Tern 2 Least Tern 1 (juvenile) Rock Dove 2 Mourning Dove 20 Chimney Swift 16 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 (1 female, 1 unknown) Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Eastern Kingbird 5 White-eyed Vireo 2 Purple Martin 7 Tree Swallow 55 Barn Swallow 8 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 7 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 15 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 36 Cedar Waxwing 2 Yellow Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 22 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 2 *LARK SPARROW *1 (juvenile) *THIS IS A NEW SPECIES FOR THE ISLAND (# 276)* Song Sparrow 36 Swamp Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 2 (1 male, 1 female) Blue Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 186 Red-winged Blackbird 201 Brown-headed Cowbird 15 Baltimore Oriole 1 (male) House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 8 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 3 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 3 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (black female) Cabbage White 29 Orange Sulphur 67 Little Yellow 10 Gray Hairstreak 4 Eastern Tailed Blue 1 Variegated Fritillary 5 American Lady 1 Painted Lady 28 Red Admiral 4 Common Buckeye 6 Monarch 48 Common Sootywing 5 *EUROPEAN SKIPPER *1 (new species for the island) DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 22 Needham's Skimmer 1 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 2 Blue Dasher 1 Wandering Glider 16 Carolina Saddlebags 3 Black Saddlebags 25 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 70 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================