Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 09:00:05 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 10/20/01 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 October 20, 2001 0710-1640 AM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds SW 5 knots PM: sunny, 75 degrees, winds SW 5 knots Route: clockwise oval with woodland spur (7 miles) Observers: Danny Bystrak, Gene Scarpulla Common Loon 6 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 8 Canada Goose 25 American Black Duck 18 Mallard 32 Green-winged Teal 1 Bufflehead 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 8 Northern Harrier 2 (immature) American Kestrel 1 (male) Merlin 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *8 Killdeer 5 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *4 *SANDERLING *1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *2 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *1 *LEAST SANDPIPER *10 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *34 *DUNLIN *89 *COMMON SNIPE *2 shorebird sp. 50 Laughing Gull 15 Ring-billed Gull 180 Herring Gull 647 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 adult-winter, 1 3rd-winter) Great Black-backed Gull 148 Mourning Dove 37 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 5 (Yellow-shafted) Eastern Phoebe 10 Blue-headed Vireo 2 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 10 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12 Hermit Thrush 4 Gray Catbird 5 Northern Mockingbird 4 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 300 Yellow-rumped Warbler 22 (Myrtle) Palm Warbler 3 (Western) Commmon Yellowthroat 3 Eastern Towhee 9 Chipping Sparrow 13 Field Sparrow 11 Savannah Sparrow 18 *SALT MARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROW *1 Song Sparrow 94 Swamp Sparrow 32 White-throated Sparrow 16 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 2 (Slate-colored) Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 86 *RUSTY BLACKBIRD *4 Brown-headed Cowbird 22 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 9 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 19 Clouded/Orange Sulphur 3 (female white form) Orange Sulphur 155 Little Yellow 1 American Snout 2 Variegated Fritillary 2 fritillary sp. 12 Pearl Crescent 5 American Lady 6 Painted Lady 45 Red Admiral 11 Common Buckeye 7 Monarch 72 skipper sp. 1 MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 1 (Wooly Bear) Salt Marsh Moth 2 (Salt Marsh Caterpillars) Yellow-collared Scape Moth 140 DRAGONFLIES dragonfly sp. 2 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 2 ___________ ADDENDUM: October 13, 2001 *AMERICAN AVOCET *8 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================