Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:56:17 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/08/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks , Sam Freiberg , Lydia Schindler , George & Colette Nozicka , Kathy Neugebauer , Dick Derycke , Johnna Robinson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 8, 2001 0715-1605 AM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds SW 10 knots PM: sunny, 85 degrees, winds S 6 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Danny Bystrak, Dick Derycke, Carol Erwin, Sara Martin, Kathy Neugebauer, Colette Nozicka, George Nozicka, Sue Ricciardi, Bob Ringler, Johnna Robinson, Gene Scarpulla, Duvall Sollers. (Montgomery County Chapter MOS field trip) Double-crested Cormorant 37 *GREAT CORMORANT *1 Great Blue Heron 16 Canada Goose 115 Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 390 Blue-winged Teal 30 Northern Shoveler 10 Green-winged Teal 16 Hooded Merganser 1 (female) Osprey 3 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) small falcon sp. 2 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *4 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *60 Killdeer 2 *AMERICAN AVOCET *25 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *969 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *4 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *13 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *40 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *3 *LEAST SANDPIPER *110 peep sp. 362 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *18 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *30 *STILT SANDPIPER *5 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *15 Laughing Gull 68 Ring-billed Gull 65 Herring Gull 414 (8 with orange-tinted chests) *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (1 1st-S going to 2nd-W, 1 3rd-W) Great Black-backed Gull 1647 Caspian Tern 105 *ROYAL TERN *8 Mourning Dove 22 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 13 White-eyed Vireo 2 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 1500 Bank Swallow 500 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 30 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Gray Catbird 6 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 105 Cedar Waxwing 6 Yellow Warbler 3 Palm Warbler 3 (Western) American Redstart 1 (male) Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 15 Yelow-breasted Chat 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Savannah Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 12 Swamp Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 3 (2 female, 1 unknown) Bobolink 145 Red-winged Blackbird 107 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 90 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 7 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 (yellow) Checkered White 1 Cabbage White 39 Orange Sulphur 51 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Little Yellow 32 Gray Hairstreak 5 Eastern Tailed Blue 3 American Lady 1 Painted Lady 2 Red Admiral 338 Common Buckeye 1 Red-spotted Purple 1 Monarch 198 *FIERY SKIPPER *1 (new species for the island) Sachem 9 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 4 (woolly bears) DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 4 Common Whitetail 2 Needham's Skimmer 1 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 2 Wandering Glider 7 Black Saddlebags 68 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 15 CORRIGENDUM - 09/01/01 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *10 CHANGE *EUROPEAN SKIPPER *1 TO Least Skipper 1 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================