Date:         Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:15:11 -0500
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 11/10/01
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          Jim Stasz <jlstasz@aol.com>, Jim Potyraj <potyrajj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>,
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"JUST ANOTHER DULL DAY..."

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
November 10, 2001
0710-1500
AM: mostly sunny, 45 degrees, winds SW 5 knots
PM: mostly sunny, 65 degrees, winds SW 15 knots
Route: clockwise oval (6 miles)
Observers: Jeff Boltz, Mary Chetelet, John Landers, Sue Ricciardi, Gene
Scarpulla



 Common Loon                  7
 Double-crested Cormorant     3
*AMERICAN BITTERN            *1
 Great Blue Heron             5
 Canada Goose                 67
 Mute Swan                    7
 American Black Duck          7
 Mallard                      46
 Bufflehead                   12 (3 male, 9 female)
 Common Goldeneye             2 (female)
 Hooded Merganser             1 (female)
 Ruddy Duck                   3 (female)
 Northern Harrier             7 (1 male, 6 immature)
 Sharp-shinned Hawk           1
 Cooper's Hawk                2 (1 adult, 1 immature)
*NORTHERN GOSHAWK            *1 (immature)
    (NEW SPECIES FOR THE ISLAND: BIRD SPECIES NUMBER 277)
 Red-shouldered Hawk          1 (immature)
 Red-tailed Hawk              2 (1 adult, 1 undetermined)
 American Kestrel             2 (1 male, 1 female)
*MERLIN                      *1 (adult male)
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER        *4
 Killdeer                     3
*DUNLIN                      *1
 Laughing Gull                2
 Bonaparte's Gull             10
 Ring-billed Gull             31
 Herring Gull                 51
 Great Black-backed Gull      138
 Mourning Dove                65
*SHORT-EARED OWL             *4
 Red-bellied Woodpecker       2
 Northern Flicker             1 (Yellow-shafted)
 American Crow                12
 Red-breasted Nuthatch        1
 Carolina Wren                3
 Gray Catbird                 2
 Northern Mockingbird         1
 European Starling            500
*AMERICAN PIPIT              *4
 Yellow-rumped Warbler        1 (Myrtle)
 Eastern Towhee               3 (1 male, 2 undetermined)
 Field Sparrow                3
 Savannah Sparrow             13
*FOX SPARROW                 *2
 Song Sparrow                 71
 Swamp Sparrow                3
 White-throated Sparrow       16
 Dark-eyed Junco              11 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING                *22
 Red-winged Blackbird         100
*BREWER'S BLACKBIRD          *1 (male)
 House Finch                  4 (2 male, 2 female)
 American Goldfinch           25

MAMMALS
 Red Fox                      1
 Raccoon                      fresh tracks

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White                2
 Clouded/Orange Sulphur       2 (female white form)
 Orange Sulphur               18
 Variegated Fritillary        6
 Common Buckeye               3

MOTHS
 Yellow-collared Scape Moth   19

DRAGONFLIES
 small dragonfly sp.          1

DAMSELFLIES
 Familiar Bluet               1

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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