Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:17:55 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/14/02 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 14, 2002 0710 - 1655 AM: mostly cloudy, 65 degrees, winds SW 5 knots PM: mostly cloudy, 80 degrees, winds SW 10 knots Route: reverse figure-9 (7 miles) (FREDERICK COUNTY MOS FIELD TRIP) Observers: Marcia Balestri, Pat Caro, Barbara Gearhart, Jim Green, Paul Mauss, Lyn Nelson, Skip Nelson, Gene Scarpulla, David Smith, Gary Smyle, Mike Welch *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 35 Great Blue Heron 7 Canada Goose 45 Mallard 2 Northern Pintail 2 Green-winged Teal 7 Osprey 8 Northern Harrier 2 (1 male, 1 female) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *1 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *5 Killdeer 6 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *15 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *3 *RED KNOT *1 *SANDERLING *2 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *6 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *3 *LEAST SANDPIPER *27 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *2 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *2 dowitcher sp. *2 Laughing Gull 407 Ring-billed Gull 657 Herring Gull 772 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *6 (1 2nd-S, 2 3rd-S, 3 ad-S) Great Black-backed Gull 2600 Caspian Tern 890 *ROYAL TERN *11 Mourning Dove 50 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Purple Martin 1 Tree Swallow 8 Barn Swallow 3 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 1 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 6 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 69 American Pipit 1 Palm Warbler 2 (Yellow) American Redstart 1 Common Yellowthroat 5 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 2 Blue Grosbeak 4 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 3 Red-winged Blackbird 29 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 37 MAMMALS Red Fox 4 AMPHIBIAN'S Fowler's Toad 3 BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 2 (female) Cabbage White 13 Clouded Sulphur 2 Orange Sulphur 24 Cloudless Sulphur 1 Gray Hairstreak 12 Eastern Tailed Blue 6 Pearl Crescent 1 Common Buckeye 6 Monarch 175 Sachem 8 MOTHS Yellow-collared Scape Moth 3 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 1 Seaside Dragonlet 1 Wandering Glider 1 Black Saddlebags 4 DAMSELFLIES Familiar Bluet 10 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================