Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:44:46 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Stan Arnold Subject: Hart-Miller Island, Sat., 5/17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Folks, I was solo at Hart-Miller Island (Balt. Co.) yesterday. Fairly wicked conditions with an a.m. temp of 48 degrees, and 20 mph winds straight out of the north. I regretted not having my winter gloves with me. Even the birds didn't care for it, and the numbers and activity were disappointing. Best bird was BLACK TERN, in among the many other terns. The tally: Common Loon--1 (still in basic plumage) DC Cormorant--9 Great Blue Heron--4 Great Egret--2 Canada Goose--7 Mute Swan--6 Am. Black Duck--2 Mallard--17 Osprey--6 pairs on nest platforms N. Harrier--2 Semipal. Plover--6 Killdeer--5 Greater Yellowlegs--2 Lesser Yellowlegs--1 Spotted Sandpiper--6 Ruddy Turnstone--1 Semipal. Sandpiper--30 Least Sandpiper--20 peep, sp.--700 Dunlin--24 Ring-billed Gull--3 Herring Gull--107 Great Black-backed Gull--41 Caspian Tern--81 Royal Tern--2 Common Tern--1 Forster's Tern--1 Black Tern--1 Mourning Dove--3 Downy Woodpecker--1 E. Wood Pewee--1 Great Crested Flycatcher--2 E. Kingbird--1 Purple Martin--2 Tree Swallow--4 Barn Swallow--22 House Wren--7 Marsh Wren--1 Gray Catbird--5 N. Mockingbird--1 Eur. Starling--16 Yellow Warbler--4 Am. Redstart--1 Common Yellowthroat--19 Song Sparrow--11 Swamp Sparrow--5 White-throated Sparrow--1 N. Cardinal--4 Red-winged Blackbird--81 Common Grackle--5 Baltimore Oriole--3 House Finch--6 Am. Goldfinch--4 Stan Arnold Glen Burnie dy.dx@verizon.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================