Date:         Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:11:20 -0500
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 10/27/01
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>, Jeff Boltz <jmb@eaest.com>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
October 27, 2001
0715-1700
AM: sunny, 45 degrees, winds NW 20 knots
PM: partly sunny, 55 degrees, winds NW 20 knots
Route: reverse figure-9 (7 miles)
Observers:  Jeff Boltz, Gene Scarpulla
(Very windy conditions, gusting to 30 knots)

 Double-crested Cormorant     13
 Great Blue Heron             3
 Wood Duck                    2 (female)
 American Black Duck          18
 Mallard                      21 (13 male, 8 female)
 Green-winged Teal            3 (female)
 Bufflehead                   1 (female)
 Ruddy Duck                   11 (5 male, 6 female)
 Bald Eagle                   2 (adult)
 Northern Harrier             2 (1 male, 1 immature)
 Cooper's Hawk                1 (immature)
 Red-tailed Hawk              1 (adult)
 American Kestrel             3 (2 male, 1 unknown)
 Merlin                       1
 Peregrine Falcon             1
 small rail sp.               1 (flushed)
 Killdeer                     8
*DUNLIN                      *6
 shorebird sp.                10
 Laughing Gull                100
 Ring-billed Gull             64
 Herring Gull                 24
 Great Black-backed Gull      31
 Rock Dove                    5
 Mourning Dove                21
 Red-bellied Woodpecker       1
 Downy Woodpecker             1
 Northern Flicker             1 (Yellow-shafted)
 American Crow                4
 Tree Swallow                 106
 Carolina Chickadee           1
 Tufted Titmouse              1
 Carolina Wren                2
 Golden-crowned Kinglet       2
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet         1
 American Robin               3
 Northern Mockingbird         2
 European Starling            600
*AMERICAN PIPIT              *6
 Yellow-rumped Warbler        11 (Myrtle)
 Eastern Towhee               5
 Field Sparrow                10
*VESPER SPARROW              *1
 Savannah Sparrow             9
 Song Sparrow                 21
 Swamp Sparrow                2
 White-throated Sparrow       8
 sparrow sp.                  37
 Dark-eyed Junco              2 (Slate-colored)
 Northern Cardinal            1 (male)
 Red-winged Blackbird         138
*RUSTY BLACKBIRD             *5 (4 male, 1 female)
*BREWER'S BLACKBIRD          *2 (male)
 Brown-headed Cowbird         1 (male)
 American Goldfinch           96

MAMMALS
 Red Fox                      2
 Raccoon                      fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                3
 Clouded/Orange Sulphur       2 (female white form)
 Orange Sulphur               5
 Monarch                      21

MOTHS
 Salt Marsh Moth              1 (Salt Marsh Caterpillar)
 Yellow-collared Scape Moth   3

DRAGONFLIES
 Common Green Darner          2

DAMSELFLIES
 large damselfly sp.          2 (collected for later identification;
                This will probably be a new species for the island.)

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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