Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:58:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/15/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks , Hans Holbrook MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 15, 2001 0715-1715 AM: sunny, 57 degrees, winds N 10 knots PM: sunny, 74 degrees, winds NE 8 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) & Woodland Spur (1/2 mile) Observers: J. B. Churchill, Hans Holbrook, Robert Holbrook, Elliot Kirschbaum, Nancy Kirschbaum, Brad Lanning, Gene Scarpulla, Duvall Sollers, Lisa Sollers. (Maryland Fall Migration Bird Count) Double-crested Cormorant 24 Great Blue Heron 9 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (immature) Turkey Vulture 3 Canada Goose 100 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 472 Blue-winged Teal 6 Northern Shoveler 75 Northern Pintail 3 Green-winged Teal 88 Bald Eagle 6 (3 adult, 3 immature) Northern Harrier 3 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 5 (3 male, 2 unknown) Merlin 2 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *6 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *9 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *19 Killdeer 3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *16 *SANDERLING *1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *84 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *2 *LEAST SANDPIPER *22 peep sp. 400 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *6 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *10 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 28 Ring-billed Gull 45 Herring Gull 187 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (adult-summer) Great Black-backed Gull 411 Caspian Tern 97 *ROYAL TERN *3 Forster's Tern 1 Mourning Dove 17 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 American Crow 1 Horned Lark 1 (juvenile) Tree Swallow 31 Barn Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 1 Marsh Wren 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 3 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 55 *AMERICAN PIPIT *12 Cedar Waxwing 7 Northern Parula 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Magnolia Warbler 8 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 9 (Western) Black-and-white Warbler 4 American Redstart 4 Common Yellowthroat 15 Yelow-breasted Chat 1 Scarlet Tanager 3 (1 male, 2 female) Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 6 *LINCOLN'S SPARROW *1 Swamp Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Bobolink 19 Red-winged Blackbird 39 Brown-headed Cowbird 21 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 29 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks REPTILES Eastern Garter Snake 1 (fresh road kill) BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 13 Orange Sulphur 26 Little Yellow 2 Gray Hairstreak 1 Eastern Tailed Blue 2 American Lady 2 Painted Lady 1 lady sp. 2 Red Admiral 5 Red-spotted Purple 2 Monarch 3000 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 2 (Woolly Bears) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 3 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 1 Black Saddlebags 5 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 5 ADDENDUM: 09/08/01 Observers: Debbie Terry CORRIGENDUM: 09/08/01 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 1st-S going to 2nd-W, 1 3rd-W) 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================