Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:50:22 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 08/11/01 Comments: To: Steve Kopecky , Jim Stasz , Jim Potyraj , Jeff Cowell , Donna Finnegan , Dave Brinker , Butch Norden , Anne Brooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following past report is posted for the observers: Observations at Hart-Miller Island August 11, 2001 0720-1210 AM: cloudy, 75 degrees, winds ENE 3 knots PM: partly cloudy to mostly sunny, 90 degrees, winds ENE 3 knots Route: Reverse Figure-9 shortened (6 miles) Observers: Jim Stasz, Kevin Graff Pied-billed Grebe 1 (juvenile) Double-crested Cormorant 13 Great Blue Heron 8 Canada Goose 14 American Black Duck 8 Mallard 280 Lesser Scaup 1 (male) Hooded Merganser 1 (female) Ruddy Duck 1 (male) Osprey 12 Cooper's Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 (male) Peregrine Falcon 1 (adult male) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *8 Killdeer 10 *AMERICAN AVOCET *34 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *622 *SOLITARY SANDPIPER *4 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER *12 *RUDDY TURNSTONE *2 *SANDERLING *3 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *997 *WESTERN SANDPIPER *125 *LEAST SANDPIPER *107 peep sp. 1500 *WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER *4 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *8 *STILT SANDPIPER *48 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *197 Laughing Gull 64 Ring-billed Gull 45 Herring Gull 185 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *3 (1 1st-S, 1 2nd-S, 1 3rd-S) Great Black-backed Gull 1139 Caspian Tern 238 Forster's Tern 28 *LEAST TERN *133 Mourning Dove 10 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 8 Purple Martin 56 Tree Swallow 7 N. Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 8 Barn Swallow 60 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 3 Marsh Wren 1 American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 12 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 55 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow Warbler 8 Common Yellowthroat 11 Song Sparrow 33 Swamp Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 9 Red-winged Blackbird 221 Common Grackle 13 Brown-headed Cowbird 14 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 5 MAMMALS Red Fox fresh tracks large canid sp. fresh tracks Raccoon fresh tracks BUTTERFLIES Black Swallowtail 1 Cabbage White 10 Clouded Sulphur 3 Orange Sulphur 8 Variegated Fritillary 1 Monarch 20 DRAGONFLIES Common Green Darner 4 Blue Dasher 2 Wandering Glider 6 Carolina Saddlebags 1 Black Saddlebags 4 ________________________ Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@home.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================