Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:17:02 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Eugene J. Scarpulla" Subject: Hart-Miller Island: 05/31/03 Comments: cc: Lori Peterson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT (Can anyone explain why my posted list explodes into fragments after it leaves my computer? If you can assist me, please respond offline to ejscarp@comcast.net .) Observations at Hart-Miller Island May 31, 2003 0710 - 1440 AM: cloudy, 60 degrees F., NE 10K PM: cloudy, 65 degrees F., S 15K Observers: David Gray, Helen Gray, John Hubbel, Lori Peterson, Gene Scarpulla *SPECIES OF NOTE Double-crested Cormorant - 25 Great Blue Heron - 10 Snowy Egret - 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 *GLOSSY IBIS - 1 Canada Goose - 37 Mute Swan - 3 American Black Duck - 1 Mallard - 109 (including 10 downy young) Blue-winged Teal - 1 (male) *LESSER SCAUP - 1 (female) *GREATER SCAUP - 2 (male [1 leucistic]) Osprey - 8 Peregrine Falcon - 1 *SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 7 Killdeer - 5 *AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER - 1 *SPOTTED SANDPIPER - 12 *RED KNOT - 1 *SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - 2050 *LEAST SANDPIPER - 1 peep sp. - 3000 *DUNLIN - 73 *WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 4 *RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 Laughing Gull - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 25 Herring Gull - 18 Great Black-backed Gull - 135 *GULL-BILLED TERN - 1 Caspian Tern - 100 Least Tern - 1 Mourning Dove - 2 Chimney Swift - 2 Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 6 Purple Martin - 5 (ON - on nest) Tree Swallow - 8 Barn Swallow - 24 House Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Gray Catbird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 1 European Starling - 1 Yellow Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 10 Northern Cardinal - 2 Song Sparrow - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 50 Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 (P - pair seen) Orchard Oriole - 5 House Finch - 4 MAMMALS Red Fox - 2 AMPHIBIANS Fowler's Toad - 3 Gene Scarpulla Millers Island, Maryland ejscarp@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================