Date:         Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:24:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sender:       Maryland Birds & Birding <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
From:         "Eugene J. Scarpulla" <ejscarp@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Hart-Miller Island: 02/02/02
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>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Observations at Hart-Miller Island
February 2, 2002
0710-1655
AM: sunny, 38 degrees, winds NW 5 knots
PM: sunny, 45 degrees, winds NW 10 knots
Route: counter-clockwise oval with half of crossdike (6.5 miles)
Observers: Kye Jenkins, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTE

 Great Blue Heron             1
 Canada Goose                 2
 Mute Swan                    2
 Tundra Swan                  3
 Gadwall                      23
 American Black Duck          64
 Mallard                      63
 Greater Scaup                1535
 Bufflehead                   16
 Common Goldeneye             597
 Red-breasted Merganser       1 (female)
 Bald Eagle                   7 (3 adult, 4 immature)
 Northern Harrier             5 (1 female, 4 immature)
 Red-shouldered Hawk          1 (immature)
 Red-tailed Hawk              2 (adult)
 American Kestrel             1 (female)
 Peregrine Falcon             2 (adult)
 Killdeer                     1
 Ring-billed Gull             12
 Herring Gull                 57
 Great Black-backed Gull      35
 Rock Dove                    1
 Mourning Dove                49
 Red-bellied Woodpecker       1
 Downy Woodpecker             3
 Northern Flicker             3 (Yellow-shafted)
 American Crow                1
 Carolina Chickadee           1
 Carolina Wren                4
 American Robin               1
 Northern Mockingbird         2
 European Starling            200
 Eastern Towhee               1
 American Tree Sparrow        3
 Field Sparrow                1
 Savannah Sparrow             9
 Song Sparrow                 21
 White-throated Sparrow       24
 White-crowned Sparrow        4
 Northern Cardinal            2 (1 male, 1 female)
 Red-winged Blackbird         160
 House Finch                  6
 American Goldfinch           83

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
=======================================================================
=========================================================================