Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:55:32 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 07/29/00 Comments: To: d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, jfwilson@dnr.state.md.us, Jlstasz@aol.com, steven.kopecky@usace.army.mil, toadlady@fls.infi.net, voice@capaccess.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Observations at Hart-Miller Island July 29, 2000 0730-1700 AM: mostly cloudy, 70 degrees, winds SE 5K PM: partly sunny, 85 degrees, winds SW 5K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Jim Stasz, George Jett, Gwen Brewer, Greg Miller, J.B. Churchill *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 11 Great Blue Heron 13 *GREAT EGRET *1 *SNOWY EGRET *2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 (1 adult, 1 juvenile) Canada Goose 46 American Black Duck 4 Mallard 170 (incl. 30 downy young) *GREEN-WINGED TEAL *1 *RUDDY DUCK *2 (1 male, 1 female) Osprey 12 (5 ad, 4 juv, 3 unk) Cooper's Hawk 1 (immature) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *61 Killdeer 32 (incl. 2 juv.) *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *108 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *2915 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *2 Spotted Sandpiper 24 (incl. 3 juv.) *SANDERLING *20 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *3272 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *211 *LEAST SANDPIPER *278 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *40 *STILT SANPIPER *18 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *107 Laughing Gull 73 (incl. 3 juv.) Ring-billed Gull 285 *CALIFORNIA GULL *1 (ADULT SUMMER) Herring Gull 114 *mystery gull sp. 1 (adult summer) Basically typical L. a. smithsonianus Herring Gull same size same medium gray mantle color black primaries white head,neck, chest, belly, vent, tail yellow bill, red gonys Except the following characters straw-colored legs dark eye one mirror on outer primary P-10 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *1 (1st-Summer) Great Black-backed Gull 521 Caspian Tern 399 Common Tern 1 Forster's Tern 10 sterna sp. 97 Least Tern 55 Mourning Dove 15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 10 White-eyed Vireo 1 Purple Martin 8 (incl. 1 nestling in box) *FIRST NEST RECORD FOR THE ISLAND* Tree Swallow 2 N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 Bank Swallow 15 Barn Swallow 27 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 13 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 1 Cedar Waxwing 1 Yellow Warbler 13 Common Yellowthroat 28 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 58 Swamp Sparrow 9 (incl. 1 juv.) Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 5 (4 male, 1 female) Red-winged Blackbird 190 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 32 American Goldfinch 7 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Red Fox fresh tracks Raccoon 1 BUTTERFLIES Pipevine Swallowtail 2 Black Swallowtail 3 (male) dark swallowtail sp. 4 Cabbage White 26 Orange Sulphur 11 Cloudless Sulphur 5 Little Yellow 2 Gray Hairstreak 2 Eastern Tailed Blue 7 American Snout 1 Variegated Fritillary 1 Pearl Crescent 2 American Lady 1 Monarch 2 DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 21 Rambur's Forktail 2 Common Green Darner 12 Seaside Dragonlet 10 Needham's Skimmer 1 Blue Dasher 3 Wandering Glider 2 Spot-winged Glider 7 Black Saddlebags 2 CORRIGENDUM: July 22, 2000 Common Merganser 0 (delete entry) Red-breated Merganser 1 (female) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (juvenile) N. Rough-winged Swallow 3 Northern Mockingbird 5 Bobolink 3 DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 350 Blue Dasher 3 Spot-winged Glider 15 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================