Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:32:13 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 11/03/01 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 November 3, 2001 0710-1650 AM: cloudy, 62 degrees, winds W 1 knot PM: mostly sunny, 75 degrees, winds NW 5 knots Route: clockwise oval (6 miles) Observer: Gene Scarpulla Common Loon 22 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 9 Canada Goose 1 Tundra Swan 84 (flyover) Gadwall 1 (male) American Black Duck 27 Mallard 45 (27 male, 18 female) *COMMON GOLDENEYE *1 (female; ARRIVAL) Bufflehead 7 (2 male, 5 female) Ruddy Duck 23 (2 male, 4 female, 17 undetermined) Northern Harrier 4 (1 male, 3 immature) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (immature) Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 (male) Merlin 1 (adult male) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *4 *DUNLIN *3 peep sp. 1 Laughing Gull 394 *BONAPARTE'S GULL *44 (ARRIVAL) Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 86 Great Black-backed Gull 76 Forster's Tern 7 Mourning Dove 23 *SHORT-EARED OWL *1 (ARRIVAL) Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 2 (Yellow-shafted) American Crow 4 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 250 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 (Myrtle) Eastern Towhee 5 (1 male, 4 undetermined) Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 117 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 7 White-crowned Sparrow 5 (1 adult, 3 immature, 1 undetermined) Red-winged Blackbird 69 *RUSTY BLACKBIRD *1 (female) House Finch 4 (1 male, 3 female) American Goldfinch 44 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 10 Clouded/Orange Sulphur 2 (female white form) Orange Sulphur 188 American Snout 3 Variegated Fritillary 12 Painted Lady 7 Red Admiral 2 Common Buckeye 13 Monarch 23 MOTHS Yellow-collared Scape Moth 36 Ailanthus Webworm Moth 85 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 4 DAMSELFLIES Familiar Bluet 6 _______________ CORRIGENDUM - 10/27/01 CHANGE: large damselfly sp. 2 TO: Familiar Bluet 2 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================