Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:17:53 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 11/17/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks , Jeff Boltz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island November 17, 2001 0715-1455 AM: mostly sunny, 50 degrees, winds N 10 knots PM: mostly sunny, 60 degrees, winds NE 10 knots Route: clockwise oval (6 miles) Observers: Stan Arnold, Jeff Boltz, Gene Scarpulla *RED-THROATED LOON *3 Common Loon 6 Double-crested Cormorant 1 *GREAT CORMORANT *1 (first-year) cormorant sp. 1 Great Blue Heron 4 Canada Goose 18 Mute Swan 9 American Black Duck 31 Mallard 37 *LONG-TAILED DUCK *1 (male) Bufflehead 48 (14 male, 34 female) Common Goldeneye 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 1 (female) Northern Harrier 6 (1 male, 5 immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 (adult) American Kestrel 1 (female) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 Laughing Gull 72 Bonaparte's Gull 272 Ring-billed Gull 16 Herring Gull 38 Great Black-backed Gull 7 Mourning Dove 32 *SHORT-EARED OWL *1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 (male) Downy Woodpecker 2 (1 female, 1 undetermined) Northern Flicker 3 (Yellow-shafted) American Crow 2 crow sp. 3 Carolina Chickadee 1 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 500 Eastern Towhee 4 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 26 Song Sparrow 70 Swamp Sparrow 11 White-throated Sparrow 36 Dark-eyed Junco 78 (Slate-colored) *SNOW BUNTING *35 Northern Cardinal 1 (male) Red-winged Blackbird 106 *BREWER'S BLACKBIRD *1 (fall variant male) House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 37 MAMMALS Red Fox 1 large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Orange Sulphur 3 MOTHS Yellow-collared Scape Moth 5 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================