Date:         Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:52:12 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart--Miller Island: 10/06/01
Comments: To: Steve Kopecky <steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil>,
          Jim Stasz <jlstasz@aol.com>, Jim Potyraj <potyrajj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>,
          Jeff Cowell <jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com>,
          Donna Finnegan <toadlady@fls.infi.net>,
          Dave Brinker <dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Butch Norden <bnorden@dnr.state.md.us>,
          Anne Brooks <birdfeeder@starpower.net>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 6, 2001
0710-1645
AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, winds SSW 20 knots
PM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds NW 25 knots
Route: Clockwise - boat dock to office building (5 miles)
Observers: Stan Arnold, Gene Scarpulla

 Double-crested Cormorant     9
 Great Blue Heron             6
 Canada Goose                 7
 Gadwall                      8
 American Black Duck          10
 Mallard                      270
 Northern Shoveler            125
 Northern Pintail             11
 Green-winged Teal            320
 Lesser Scaup                 1 (male)
 Ruddy Duck                   1
 Northern Harrier             1 (immature)
 Sharp-shinned Hawk           1
 Red-tailed Hawk              1 (adult)
 American Kestrel             4 (3 male, 1 undetermined)
 Merlin                       1
 Peregrine Falcon             3 (adult)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER        *95
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER      *39
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER         *10
 Killdeer                     14
*AMERICAN AVOCET             *15
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS          *2
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS           *261
*HUDSONIAN GODWIT            *1 (juvenile)
*SANDERLING                  *19
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER      *23
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *5
 peep sp.                     25
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER           *1
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER          *30
*DUNLIN                      *94
*STILT SANDPIPER             *1
*BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER     *1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER      *7 (juvenile)
*LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER       *1
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE          *2
 Laughing Gull                4
 Ring-billed Gull             34
*CALIFORNIA GULL             *1 (adult-winter)
 Herring Gull                 288
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL    *2 (1 3rd-S, 1 ad-S)
 Great Black-backed Gull      526
 Caspian Tern                 69
*ROYAL TERN                  *4
 Mourning Dove                3
 Chimney Swift                2
 Northern Flicker             2 (Yellow-shafted)
 Tree Swallow                 12
 Savannah Sparrow             4
 Song Sparrow                 2
 White-throated Sparrow       2
 sparrow sp.                  5
 Red-winged Blackbird         5
 Brown-headed Cowbird         5
 House Finch                  3
 American Goldfinch           2

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                1
 Orange Sulphur               6
 lady sp.                     2
 Monarch                      63

MOTHS
 Yellow-collared Scape Moth   1

DRAGONFLIES
 Black Saddlebags             2

DAMSELFLIES
 bluet sp.                    4

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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