Date:         Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:17:15 -0500
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From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 12/29/01
Comments: To: Steve Kopecky <steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil>,
          Jim Stasz <jlstasz@aol.com>,
          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>,
          Jim Potyraj <potyrajj@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>, Jeff Boltz <jmb@eaest.com>
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Observations at Hart-Miller Island
December 29, 2001
0705-1635
AM: cloudy, 35 degrees, winds 0 knots
PM: cloudy, 45 degrees, winds SW 2 knots
Route: figure-8 with woodland spur(8.5 miles)
Observers: Jeff Boltz, Danny Bystrak, Gene Scarpulla
(Part of Baltimore Harbor Christmas Bird Count)


 Great Blue Heron             1
 Canada Goose                 8
 Tundra Swan                  16
 Gadwall                      11 (6 male, 5 female)
 American Black Duck          31
 Mallard                      42
 Canvasback                   1 (male)
 Lesser Scaup                 27
 scaup sp.                    54
 diving duck sp.              127
 Bufflehead                   76 (40 male, 36 female)
 Common Goldeneye             16 (10 m ale, 6 female)
 Bald Eagle                   3 (adult)
 Northern Harrier             5 (1 male, 1 female, 3 immature)
 Sharp-shinned Hawk           1
 Red-tailed Hawk              1 (adult)
 American Kestrel             2 (1 female, 1 undetermined)
*VIRGINIA RAIL               *2
 American Coot                1
 Killdeer                     1
 Ring-billed Gull             2
 Herring Gull                 6
 Great Black-backed Gull      5
 Mourning Dove                58
*GREAT HORNED OWL            *1
 Red-bellied Woodpecker       4
 Downy Woodpecker             5
 Northern Flicker             3
 American Crow                2
 Carolina Chickadee           3
 Tufted Titmouse              2
 White-breasted Nuthatch      1
 Carolina Wren                9
 Winter Wren                  2
 Marsh Wren                   1
 Gray Catbird                 3
 Northern Mockingbird         2
 Brown Thrasher               2
 European Starling            400
 Common Yellowthroat          3
 Eastern Towhee               5
 Field Sparrow                6
 Savannah Sparrow             32
 Fox Sparrow                  1
 Song Sparrow                 83
 Swamp Sparrow                20
 White-throated Sparrow       26
 White-crowned Sparrow        15
 sparrow sp.                  20
 Dark-eyed Junco              1 (Slate-colored)
*SNOW BUNTING                *20
 Northern Cardinal            8 (5 male, 3 female)
 Red-winged Blackbird         52
 House Finch                  2 (1 male, 1 female)
 American Goldfinch           118

MAMMALS
 Red Fox                      1

Gene Scarpulla
Millers Island, Maryland
ejscarp@home.com

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