[MDOsprey] July 31, 1999

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 01 Aug 1999 17:57:14 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for July
31, 1999.

The observer was Gene Scarpulla.

Observation: 0710-1650
             AM: Sunny, 80 degrees F., N 5K
             PM: Sunny, 95 degrees F., S 5K

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 Double-crested Cormorant        8
 Great Blue Heron                37
 Little Blue Heron               1 (immature)
 Canada Goose                    23
 Mallard                         37 (includes 8 downy young)
 Osprey                          18 (11 adult, 7 juvenile)
 Peregrine Falcon                1 (adult)
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER            *11
 Killdeer                        23
*GREATER YELLOWLEGS             *1
*LESSER YELLOWLEGS              *44 (includes 2 juvenile)
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER             *1
 Spotted Sandpiper               16 (includes 6 juvenile)
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER         *1173
*WESTERN SANDPIPER              *234
*LEAST SANDPIPER                *26 (includes 3 juvenile)
 peep sp.                        500
*PECTORAL SANDPIPER             *26
*STILT SANDPIPER                *1
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER         *1 (hendersoni)
 Laughing Gull                   4
 Ring-billed Gull                207
 Herring Gull                    28
 Great Black-backed Gull         615
 Caspian Tern                    45 (includes 1 juvenile)
 Common Tern                     7 (includes 1 juvenile)
 Mourning Dove                   7
 Willow Flycatcher               2
 Eastern Kingbird                5
 Fish Crow                       1
 crow sp.                        1
 Purple Martin                   5
 Tree Swallow                    4
 Bank Swallow                    52
 Cliff Swallow                   1
 Barn Swallow                    70
 Carolina Wren                   2
 House Wren                      1
 Marsh Wren                      1
 Gray Catbird                    5
 Yellow Warbler                  1
 Common Yellowthroat             7
 Scarlet Tanager                 1
 Song Sparrow                    38
 Swamp Sparrow                   7
 Northern Cardinal               1
 Bobolink                        3
 Red-winged Blackbird            66
 House Finch                     2
 American Goldfinch              4

MAMMALS
 Muskrat                         2

BUTTERFLIES
 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail       1 (yellow)
 blackish swallowtail sp.        1
 Cabbage White                   13
 Orange Sulphur                  12
 Variegated Fritillary           1
 Monarch                         15

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com