Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:20:14 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Shaffer Subject: Hart-Miller Island, August 3 Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 3, 2002; 7:15 AM - 4:30 PM Weather: AM was sunny and in the low 80's PM was hot, slight breeze and a high of 99 Conditions were very dry on the mudflats, except for a few wet gullies and isolated small puddles. Observers - Fred Shaffer & George Shaffer Mallards - 14 Lesser Scaup - 1 Double Crested Cormorants - 15 Great Blue Herons - 13 Peregrine Falcon - 1 Turkey Vultures - 4 Osprey - 11 Great Black Backed Gull - 570 Herring Gull - 43 Ring Billed Gull - 191 Laughing Gull - 35 Lesser Black Backed Gull - 2 Royal Tern - 110 Caspian Tern - 15 Common Tern - 1 Tern sp. - 3 Mourning Dove - 28 Rock Dove - 9 Starling - 30 Least Sandpiper - 101 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 54 Western Sandpiper - 4 Peep sp. - 62 Pectoral Sandpiper - 6 White Rumped Sandpiper - 3 Lesser Yellowlegs - 12 Greater Yellowlegs - 6 Yellowleg sp. - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 33 Killdeer - 3 Semilpalmated Plover - 3 Barn Swallows - 67 Bank Swallows - 21 Northern Rough winged Swallows - 2 Tree Swallows - 1 Cliff Swallows - 2 Purple Martins - 8 American Crows - 3 Fish Crows - 2 Crow sp. - 2 Carolina Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 3 American Goldfinch - 4 House Finch - 1 Indigo Bunting - 2 Yellow Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Song Sparrow - 39 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Gray Catbird - 2 Mockingbird - 2 Cardinal - 2 MAMMALS 2 Red Fox Note: We only finished approximately 6 of the 7 mile loop due to the approaching thunderstorms, at which point one of the workers from the island took us to the main building. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================