Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:26:12 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/22/01 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 22, 2001 0715-1700 AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, winds S 5 knots PM: mostly sunny, 80 degrees, winds S 5 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Danny Bystrak, Craig Johnson, Diann Prosser, Gene Scarpulla, Melanie Steinkamp Double-crested Cormorant 63 Great Blue Heron 12 Canada Goose 18 American Black Duck 15 Mallard 433 Blue-winged Teal 22 Northern Shoveler 45 Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal 60 Greater Scaup 1 (male) scaup sp. 2 (1 male, 1 female) Osprey 2 Bald Eagle 1 (adult) Northern Harrier 1 (immature) buteo sp. 1 Merlin 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *27 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *9 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *29 Killdeer 4 *AMERICAN AVOCET *10 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *380 *SANDERLING *17 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *170 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *4 *LEAST SANDPIPER *25 peep sp. 100 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *40 *STILT SANDPIPER *12 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *9 (juvenile) *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 6 Ring-billed Gull 7 Herring Gull 62 Great Black-backed Gull 209 gull sp. 1000 (flushed off of island by eagle) Caspian Tern 135 *ROYAL TERN *10 Mourning Dove 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Chimney Swift 45 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Downy Woodpecker 4 *HAIRY WOODPECKER *1 Northern Flicker 5 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 1 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 6 House Wren 6 Marsh Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 22 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 65 *AMERICAN PIPIT *22 Cedar Waxwing 3 Northern Parula 2 Yellow Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 1 Pine/Blackpoll Warbler sp. 1 Palm Warbler 6 (Western) Black-and-white Warbler 2 *CONNECTICUT WARBLER *1 Common Yellowthroat 40 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 13 Song Sparrow 15 *LINCOLN'S SPARROW *1 Swamp Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 15 Red-winged Blackbird 175 Brown-headed Cowbird 13 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 6 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 4 BUTTERFLIES Checkered White 1 Cabbage White 23 Clouded Sulphur 1 Clouded/Orange Sulphur 3 (female white form) Orange Sulphur 79 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Little Yellow 32 Gray Hairstreak 2 Summer Azure 2 Painted Lady 3 Red Admiral 9 Common Buckeye 4 Red-spotted Purple 1 Viceroy 1 Monarch 332 Common Sootywing 1 skipper sp. 2 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 2 (Woolly Bears) *SALT MARSH MOTH *3 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)[new] *VIRGINIAN TIGER MOTH *4 (Yellow Bears) [new] Yellow-collared Scape Moth 18 *SMEARED DAGGER MOTH *1 (Smartweed Caterpillar) [new] Ailanthus Webworm Moth 2 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 16 Twelve-spotted Skimmer 1 Black Saddlebags 16 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 20 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================