Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 06:52:12 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart--Miller Island: 10/06/01 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 Observations at Hart-Miller Island October 6, 2001 0710-1645 AM: cloudy, 70 degrees, winds SSW 20 knots PM: sunny, 65 degrees, winds NW 25 knots Route: Clockwise - boat dock to office building (5 miles) Observers: Stan Arnold, Gene Scarpulla Double-crested Cormorant 9 Great Blue Heron 6 Canada Goose 7 Gadwall 8 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 270 Northern Shoveler 125 Northern Pintail 11 Green-winged Teal 320 Lesser Scaup 1 (male) Ruddy Duck 1 Northern Harrier 1 (immature) Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 (adult) American Kestrel 4 (3 male, 1 undetermined) Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 3 (adult) *BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER *95 *AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER *39 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER *10 Killdeer 14 *AMERICAN AVOCET *15 *GREATER YELLOWLEGS *2 *LESSER YELLOWLEGS *261 *HUDSONIAN GODWIT *1 (juvenile) *SANDERLING *19 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER *23 *LEAST SANDPIPER *5 peep sp. 25 *BAIRD'S SANDPIPER *1 *PECTORAL SANDPIPER *30 *DUNLIN *94 *STILT SANDPIPER *1 *BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER *1 *SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER *7 (juvenile) *LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER *1 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE *2 Laughing Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 34 *CALIFORNIA GULL *1 (adult-winter) Herring Gull 288 *LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL *2 (1 3rd-S, 1 ad-S) Great Black-backed Gull 526 Caspian Tern 69 *ROYAL TERN *4 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 2 Northern Flicker 2 (Yellow-shafted) Tree Swallow 12 Savannah Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 sparrow sp. 5 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 2 BUTTERFLIES Cabbage White 1 Orange Sulphur 6 lady sp. 2 Monarch 63 MOTHS Yellow-collared Scape Moth 1 DRAGONFLIES Black Saddlebags 2 DAMSELFLIES bluet sp. 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================