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Hart-Miller Island 4/21/07

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Bob Ringler

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Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:21:30 +0000

   Today I substituted for Gene Scarpulla at Hart-Miller. Could have used more eyes. There were lots of birds:

Canada Goose  14
Mute Swan  60
Gadwall  17
Black Duck  5
Mallard  23
Blue-winged Teal  5
Shoveler  19
Green-winged Teal  20
Ring-necked Duck  4
Greater Scaup  2
Lesser Scaup  29
Bufflehead  28
Ruddy Duck  120
Common Loon  1 flying over
Pied-billed Grebe  18
Horned Grebe  1
DC Cormorant  75
Great Blue Heron  8
Great Egret  1
Osprey  10
Bald Eagle  1 adult
Harrier  2
Unidentified rail  1
Coot  605
Killdeer  12
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  7
Least Sandpiper  4
Dunlin  12
Snipe  2
Bonaparte's Gull  180
Ring-billed Gull  105
Herring Gull  125
Lesser Black-back  3, two adults in breeding plumage and a second-summer bird
Great Black-back  11
Caspian Tern  345
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1 heard
Downy Woodpecker  2
Fish Crow  4
Purple Martin  1 female
Tree Swallow  55
Rough-winged Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  20
Carolina Chickadee  1 heard
Tufted Titmouse  1 heard
Carolina Wren  8
Marsh Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3
Gnatcatcher  1
Robin  7
Mockingbird  1
Starling  10, one collecting nesting material
Myrtle Warbler  9
Yellow Palm Warbler  6
Chipping Sparrow  2
Field Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  23
Song Sparrow  55
Swamp Sparrow  31
White-throated Sparrow  3
Junco  1
Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  85
Common Grackle  19
Cowbird  13
House Finch  8
Goldfinch  14

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD