Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:11:50 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/25/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island May 24, 2003 0715 - 1400 intermittent light rain all day, 60 degrees Observers: Mike Welch, Gary Smyle, Skip Nelson, Zach Baer, Jim Stasz, Matt Hafner *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant - 16 Great Blue Heron - 22 *GLOSSY IBIS - 1 Canada Goose - 8 Mute Swan - 2 American Black Duck - 2 Mallard - 19 *LESSER SCAUP - 1 *GREATER SCAUP - 1 Osprey - 12 Peregrine Falcon - 1 *SORA - 1 singing in NE corner of south cell *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 9 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 12 Killdeer - 5 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 0 *SOLITARY SANDIPIPER - 1 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 19 *WHIMBREL - 1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2984 *LEAST SANDPIPER - 22 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 9 *DUNLIN - 286 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 2 *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (male) Laughing Gull - 4 Ring-billed Gull - 1 Herring Gull - 49 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 (2nd-S) Great Black-backed Gull - 43 Caspian Tern - 107 Royal Tern - 1 Mourning Dove - 6 Chimney Swift - 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Willow Flycatcher - 3 Eastern Kingbird - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Fish Crow - 5 Purple Martin - 4 Tree Swallow - 65 Bank Swallow - 6 Barn Swallow - 45 House Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 3 Gray Catbird - 4 Brown Thrasher - 1 European Starling - 6 Yellow Warbler - 12 Common Yellowthroat - 8 Northern Cardinal - 8 Blue Grosbeak - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 24 Swamp Sparrow - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 40 Common Grackle - 1 Orchard Oriole - 1 House Finch - 6 American Goldfinch - 10 Mammals Coyote - 1 seen Matt Hafner College Park, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================