Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:03:42 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/29/01 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 29, 2001 0710-1655 AM: mostly sunny, 55 degrees, winds N 20 knots PM: mostly sunny, 75 degrees, winds N 20 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 (7 miles) Observers: Don Burggraf, Kye Jenkins, John Landers, Gene Scarpulla, Leo Weigant Double-crested Cormorant 10 Great Blue Heron 17 Snow Goose 1 Canada Goose 1145 (1131 flyover) Tundra Swan 221 (flyover) Gadwall 4 American Black Duck 17 Mallard 475 Blue-winged Teal 15 Northern Shoveler 62 Northern Pintail 7 Green-winged Teal 68 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 2 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 American Kestrel 4 (2 male, 2 female) Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 2 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *25 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *17 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *7 Killdeer 13 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *8 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *76 *HUDSONIAN GODWIT *1 (juvenile) *MARBLED GODWIT *1 *SANDERLING *7 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *17 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 *LEAST SANDPIPER *2 peep sp. 50 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *13 *DUNLIN *13 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 Laughing Gull 50 Ring-billed Gull 41 Herring Gull 217 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (early adult-winter) Great Black-backed Gull 306 Caspian Tern 30 *ROYAL TERN *4 Rock Dove 15 Mourning Dove 53 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 (1 female, 1 unknown) Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 17 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 21 Blue Jay 74 Tree Swallow 60 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Wren 4 House Wren 1 Gray Catbird 14 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 40 *AMERICAN PIPIT *9 Cedar Waxwing 2 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 13 Black-throated Green Warbler 3 Palm Warbler 17 (6 Western, 7 Yellow, 4 unknown) Black-and-white Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 5 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 18 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 3 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 1 Red-winged Blackbird 51 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 13 American Goldfinch 29 MAMMALS Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 18 Clouded/Orange Sulphur 1 (female white form) Orange Sulphur 25 Pearl Crescent 3 Painted Lady 1 Red Admiral 2 Monarch 22 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 1 (Woolly Bear) Salt Marsh Moth 9 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars) Virginian Tiger Moth 1 (Yellow Bear) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 10 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 1 Black Saddlebags 6 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 17 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================