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Re: Hart-Miller Island, May 30, 2009

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Edward Boyd

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Edward Boyd

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Sun, 31 May 2009 05:05:07 -0700

Sorry. Didn't get much sleep last night and this should have been directed at a small group of folks and not the whole list. My apologies to the list.
 Edward Boyd
Westminster, MD 



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From: Edward Boyd <>
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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:33:11 AM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Hart-Miller Island, May 30, 2009

WTF!!! The word went out mid-week that there would be no boat this past weekend. What happened here? This is directed at whomever put the wrong word out.
 Edward Boyd
Westminster, MD 




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Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:33:41 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Hart-Miller Island, May 30, 2009

Observation at Hart-Miller Island (Posted for Gene while he's away)
May 30, 2009
0705 - 1450
Weather: AM: MC, 60 degrees, W 5 K; PM: Fair, 77 degrees, SSE 8 K
Observers: Terry Crowe, Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler, Gene Scarpulla

*SPECIES OF NOTES

Canada Goose - 34
Mute Swan - 32
Wood Duck - 20
Gadwall - 3 (2 drakes, 1 hen)
American Black Duck - 12
Mallard - 141 (plus one Black X Mallard hybrid)
Blue-winged Teal - 2 (drakes)
Greater Scaup - 2 (drakes)
Lesser Scaup - 4
scaup sp. - 3
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 (hen)
Ruddy Duck - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 54 (7 nests)
Double-crested Cormorant - 61
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 18
Great Egret - 4
Snowy Egret - 4
Cattle Egret - 1
Glossy Ibis - 2
Turkey Vulture - 1
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 3 (2 adults, imm.)
Peregrine Falcon - 1 (adult)
*SORA - 1
*COMMON MOORHEN - 1
American Coot - 3
*BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER - 7
*SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 35
Killdeer - 19 (including 4 downy young)
*BLACK-NECKED STILT - 8 (2 nests, 1 w/ 2 eggs and 1 w/ 3 eggs)
*SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 9
*RUDDY TURNSTONE - 6
*RED KNOT - 1
*SANDERLING - 1
*SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 860
*LEAST SANDPIPER - 10
unidentifited peep sp. - 120
*WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - 5
*DUNLIN - 37
*SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 8
*RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 9 (1 male, 8 females)
Laughing Gull - 2 (breeding adults)
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (1st year)
Ring-billed Gull - 175
Herring Gull - 12
Great Black-backed Gull - 161
Least Tern - 10
Caspian Tern - 162
*BLACK SKIMMER - 2
Mourning Dove - 4
Chimney Swift - 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 2
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 7
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 4
Tree Swallow - 29
Barn Swallow - 33
Carolina Wren - 1
House Wren - 2
Marsh Wren - 12
American Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 7
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 9
Cedar Waxwing - 2
Yellow Warbler - 12
Pine Warbler - 1
Blackpoll Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 14
Eastern Towhee - 1
Song Sparrow - 22
Swamp Sparrow - 7
Northern Cardinal - 4
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 82
Common Grackle - 39 (Purple)
Brown-headed Cowbird - 2
Orchard Oriole - 5
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 13
SPECIES: 84
TOTAL BIRDS: 2423

MAMMALS
Red Fox - 2

REPTILES
Eastern Snapping Turtle - 2

AMPHIBIANS
Fowler's Toad - 1
American Bullfrog - 1

BUTTERFLIES
Black Swallowtail - 2
Spicebush Swallowtail - 1
swallowtail sp. - 1
Cabbage White - 23
Orange Sulphur - 20
Summer Azure - 10
Variegated Fritillary - 3
Pearl Crescent - 2
Question Mark - 2
Mourning Cloak - 1 
Painted Lady - 1
Silver-spotted Skipper - 5
Least Skipper - 4

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 5
Needham's Skimmer - 4
Slaty Skimmer - 1
Wandering Glider - 3

DAMSELFLIES
Familiar Bluets - 2 

BEETLES
Clover Stem Borer - 2
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - 10 (2 mature larva)



    Kevin Graff
    West Ocean City, MD