Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:39:22 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Eugene J Scarpulla Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 09/02/00 Comments: To: birdfeeder@starpower.net, BNORDEN@dnr.state.md.us, d.potyraj@worldnet.att.net, dbrinker@dnr.state.md.us, jeff.cowell@ingrambook.com, 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 September 2, 2000 0715-1645 AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, winds E 5K PM: cloudy, 80 degrees, winds E 1K Observers: Gene Scarpulla, Danny Bystrak, Matt Hafner, John Mogavero, Dave Powell, Sue Ricciardi, Duvall Sollers, Tracy Walker (Cypress, California) *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant 37 Great Blue Heron 13 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 (juvenile) Canada Goose 15 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 53 Blue-winged Teal 27 Northern Shoveler 5 Green-winged Teal 3 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 2 (immature) Cooper's Hawk 1 (juvenile) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *3 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *14 Killdeer 18 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *7 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *96 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *1 Spotted Sandpiper 6 *WHIMBREL *1 *HUDSONIAN GODWIT* **14 (new state high?) *RUDDY TURNSTONE *5 *SANDERLING *20 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *347 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *4 *LEAST SANDPIPER *58 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *13 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *2 (juvenile) *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *10 *STILT SANPIPER *2 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *5 *RUFF* **1 (female) *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *7 (juvenile) Laughing Gull 19 Ring-billed Gull 51 (Including one aberrent adult (or possibly almost full adult) with jet black legs and a jet black bill with the apical 1/4 yellow. This coloration appeared to be genetic and not due to mud or oil. The bird exhibited no apparent morphological characteristics of any other gull species) Herring Gull 195 Great Black-backed Gull 698 Caspian Tern 299 Forster's Tern 1 Rock Dove 3 Mourning Dove 32 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Downy Woodpecker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 12 White-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow 2 Purple Martin 46 Tree Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 8 Cliff Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 9 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 8 Marsh Wren 4 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 6 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 84 Cedar Waxwing 5 Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 6 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow 15 Swamp Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 3 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 16 Red-winged Blackbird 121 Brown-headed Cowbird 70 House Finch 12 American Goldfinch 9 MAMMALS Muskrat 1 Raccoon fresh tracks AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad 2 BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Pipevine Swallowtail 1 Black Swallowtail 3 Spicebush Swallowtail 1 dark swallowtail sp. 1 Cabbage White 7 Orange Sulphur 24 Cloudless Sulphur 9 Gray Hairstreak 1 Eastern Tailed Blue 2 Summer Azure 2 Red Admiral 4 Common Buckeye 3 Red-spotted Purple 7 Monarch 6 Least Skipper 4 Broad-winged Skipper 3 orange skipper sp. 3 Virginia Ctenucha Moth 1 *RATTLEBOX MOTH *6 (NEW FOR ISLAND) DAMSELFLIES & DRAGONFLIES Familiar Bluet 100 Common Green Darner 8 Eastern Pondhawk 1 Black Saddlebags 10 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 ======================================================================== ==========================================================================