Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 21:15:36 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/25/02 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Observations at Hart-Miller Island May 25, 2002 1000 - 1650 AM: partly cloudy, 70 degrees, winds NE 10 knots PM: mostly cloudy, 85 degrees, winds NE 2 knots Route: partial reverse figure-9 (6 miles) (FREDERICK COUNTY MOS FIELD TRIP) Observers: Stan Arnold, Eddie Boyd, Danny Bystrak, Matt Hafner, Helen Horrocks, Marshall Iliff, Lyn Nelson, Gene Scarpulla, Margaret Schultz, Gary Smyle, Ron Staley, Jim Stasz *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 15 Great Blue Heron 14 Turkey Vulture 1 Canada Goose 14 Mute Swan 2 Gadwall 4 (2 male, 2 female) American Black Duck 46 Mallard 283 (including 6 downy young) Osprey 13 (including 3 nestlings) Peregrine Falcon 1 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *6 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *99 *PIPING PLOVER *1 Killdeer 5 *AMERICAN AVOCET *1 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *1 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *15 (1st nest - now empty) (2nd nest - 4 eggs) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *6 *RED KNOT *3 *SANDERLING *2 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *946 *LEAST SANDPIPER *22 peep sp. *100 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *7 *DUNLIN *572 dowitcher sp. *8 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *1 (female) *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE *1 (female) Laughing Gull 1 *LITTLE GULL *1 (1st-S to 2nd-W) Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull 446 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *9 (5 1st-S, 1 3rd-S, 1 ad-S) Great Black-backed Gull 187 Caspian Tern 139 Mourning Dove 8 Willow Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 2 Fish Crow 3 Purple Martin 3 Tree Swallow 15 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 12 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 12 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 7 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 1 Yellow Warbler 9 Blackpoll Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 21 Song Sparrow 22 Swamp Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 80 Common Grackle 1 Orchard Oriole 2 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 6 REPTILES Painted Turtle 1 BUTTERFLIES Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1 (yellow) Cabbage White 79 Orange Sulphur 79 Variegated Fritillary 3 Mourning Cloak 1 American Lady 3 Common Sootywing 4 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 1 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================