Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:27:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 12/15/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks , Jim Potyraj MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island December 15, 2001 0710-1700 AM: sunny, 48 degrees, winds NW 20 knots PM: sunny, 55 degrees, winds NW 25 knots Route: clockwise oval (6 miles) Observers: Jim Potyraj (WV), Gene Scarpulla *RED-THROATED LOON *1 Common Loon 2 *GREAT CORMORANT *4 (2 adult, 2 first-year) Mute Swan 31 Gadwall 4 (3 male, 1 female) American Black Duck 44 Black Duck/Mallard Hybrid 2 (male) Mallard 42 (21 male, 21 female) Bufflehead 19 (9 male, 10 female) Bald Eagle 1 (immature) Northern Harrier 4 (1 male, 1 female, 2 immature) accipiter sp. 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (immature) Red-tailed Hawk 2 (adult) American Kestrel 2 (1 female, 1 undetermined) Laughing Gull 1 Bonaparte's Gull 50 Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 93 Great Black-backed Gull 17 Mourning Dove 56 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 (1 male, 1 female, 1 undetermined) Downy Woodpecker 2 (1 male, 1 undetermined) Northern Flicker 1 (Yellow-shafted) American Crow 1 Carolina Chickadee 3 Carolina Wren 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 550 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 5 Savannah Sparrow 18 Song Sparrow 24 White-throated Sparrow 9 Dark-eyed Junco 4 (Slate-colored) *SNOW BUNTING *11 Red-winged Blackbird 22 American Goldfinch 36 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks MOTHS Isabella Tiger Moth 1 (Wooly Bear) 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================