Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:28:05 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Hart-Miller Island 9/6/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island September 6, 2003 0700-1700 Observers: Mike Burchett, Jim Stasz, Fred Shaffer, JB Churchill, Hans Holbrook, Elliot Kirschbaum, Barbara Gearhart, Pat Caro, Bob Ringler, John Hubbell, Paul Noell, Ed Boyd, Matt Hafner *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant - 25 Great Blue Heron - 5 Great Egret - 5 Little Blue Heron - 1 Cattle Egret - 4 Canada Goose - 84 *GREEN-WINGED TEAL - 52 American Black Duck - 4 Mallard - 45 *BLUE-WINGED TEAL - 5 *NORTHERN SHOVELER - 43 *NORTHERN PINTAIL - 11 Northern Harrier - 4 Osprey - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 American Kestrel - 1 Merlin - 3 *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 5 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER - 3 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 107 Killdeer - 11 *AMERICAN AVOCET - 26 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS - 3 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS - 116 Spotted Sandpiper - 5 *UPLAND SANDPIPER - 2 *WHIMBREL - 2 *SANDERLING - 11 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 59 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 125 *WESTERN SANDPIPER - 75 *LEAST SANDPIPER - 57 peep sp. - 250 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 64 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER - 9 *STILT SANDPIPER- 28 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 97 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 4 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1 Laughing Gull - 50 *BONAPARTE'S GULL - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 427 Herring Gull - 106 Great Black-backed Gull - 488 Caspian Tern - 384 Common Tern - 2 Forster's Tern - 3 Least Tern - 4 Mourning Dove - 23 Rock Pigeon - 2 Chimney Swift - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6 Purple Martin - 21 Tree Swallow - 46 Bank Swallow - 6 *CLIFF SWALLOW - 1 Barn Swallow - 112 Carolina Wren - 1 Gray Catbird - 2 Northern Mockingbird - 2 European Starling - 230 Yellow Warbler - 1 Palm Warbler - "Western" 4 "Yellow" 1 Common Yellowthroat - 7 Blue Grosbeak - 2 Savannah Sparrow - 9 Song Sparrow - 12 Bobolink - 5 Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 33 House Finch - 12 American Goldfinch - 13 Dragonflies: Black Saddlebags Green Darner Seaside Dragonlet Wandering Glider Butterflies: Monarch Orange Sulfur Painted Lady Cabbage White Gray Hairstreak Red Admiral Black Swallowtail Red-spotted Purple Tiger Swallowtail Least Skipper Pearl Crescent Silver-spotted Skipper Common Buckeye Spicebush Swallowtail Clouded Sulfur Viceroy American Lady Mammals: Fox Amphibians: Fowler's Toad 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================