Date:         Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:34:53 -0400
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 10/13/01
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>,
          Marta Wagner <WagnerM@alpa.org>,
          Joseph & Linda Corcoran <lcorcoran2@home.com>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 13, 2001
0710-1700
AM: sunny, 63 degrees, winds SSW 2 knots
PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds SSE 5 knots
Route: 6 miles
Observers: Jeff Boltz, Joe Corcoran, Carol Erwin, Brad Lanning, Gene
Scarpulla, Marta Wagner
(AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY FIELD TRIP)

 Common Loon                  3
 Double-crested Cormorant     22
 Great Blue Heron             7
 Canada Goose                 50
 Mute Swan                    3
 American Black Duck          3
 Mallard                      8
 Northern Shoveler            63
 Green-winged Teal            10
 Ruddy Duck                   2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Northern Harrier             5 (1 female, 4 immature)
 Red-tailed Hawk              1 (adult)
 American Kestrel             2
 Merlin                       1
 Peregrine Falcon             1 (P. f. tundrius immature)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER        *31
*AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER      *2
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER         *10
 Killdeer                     4
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS           *274
*WILLET                      *1 (race?)
*SANDERLING                  *4
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER      *3
*LEAST SANDPIPER             *24
*BAIRD'S SANDPIPER           *4
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER          *17
*DUNLIN                      *34
*STILT SANDPIPER             *4
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER      *6 (juvenile)
*WILSON'S PHALAROPE          *1
 Laughing Gull                5
 Ring-billed Gull             24
 Herring Gull                 82
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL    *2 (1 adult-winter, 1 1st-winter)
 Great Black-backed Gull      353
 Caspian Tern                 7
*ROYAL TERN                  *2
 Mourning Dove                16
 Chimney Swift                30
 Belted Kingfisher            1
 Downy Woodpecker             2
 Northern Flicker             7 (Yellow-shafted)
 Eastern Phoebe               1
 Blue Jay                     2
 Tree Swallow                 1600
 Carolina Wren                1
 House Wren                   1
 Gray Catbird                 2
 Northern Mockingbird         5
 European Starling            300
 Eastern Towhee               2
 Savannah Sparrow             34
 Song Sparrow                 42
 Swamp Sparrow                2
 White-throated Sparrow       3
 Northern Cardinal            1
 Red-winged Blackbird         73
 Brown-headed Cowbird         3
 Purple Finch                 1 (male)
 House Finch                  15
 American Goldfinch           11

MAMMALS
 Red Fox                      1

AMPHIBIANS
 Fowler's Toad                2

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                12
 Orange Sulphur               26
 Variegated Fritillary        2
 Mourning Cloak               1
 Painted Lady                 4
 lady sp.                     4
 Red Admiral                  1
 Common Buckeye               3
 Monarch                      13

MOTHS
 Salt Marsh Moth              2 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars)
 Yellow-collared Scape Moth   87

DRAGONFLIES
 Black Saddlebags             5

DAMSELFLIES
 bluet sp.                    7

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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