Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Aug 8, 2007

            This report is submitted on behalf of Jan Reese of Talbot
County, who continues to periodically survey the flora and fauna of Poplar
Island.   The Poplar Island project has received a name change.  It is now
called Paul Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island. 
            These sightings include the birds seen on Aug 8, 2007.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 
	
	Weather: Overcast early, partly cloudy later  Temp range 82-100
degrees  F

	
SPECIES

BROWN PELICAN		   	   (3)
Double-crested Cormorant	   (1186)
Great Blue Heron           	   (36)
Snowy Egret			   	   (17)
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON        (1)
American Black Duck		   (3)

Mallard                    	   (46)
Surf Scoter			   	   (2)
Black Scoter		  	   (1)
Long-tailed Duck		   	   (1)
Osprey				   (46)
Bald Eagle			   	   (10)
Semipalmated Plover		   (103)
Killdeer			 	   (13)
AMERICAN AVOCET		   	   (2)
Lesser Yellowlegs		   	   (29)

Willet				   (1)
Spotted Sandpiper		   	   (39)
RUDDY TURNSTONE		         (5)
Sanderling			   	   (29)
Semipalmated Sandpiper	   	   (688)
WESTERN SANDPIPER	   		   (7)
Least Sandpiper 		         (1084)
Pectoral Sandpiper		   (12)
STILT SANDPIPER		         (2)
Short-billed Dowitcher		   (7)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE   	         (1)

Laughing Gull			   (72)
Ring-billed Gull			   (15)
Herring Gull            	   (611)
Great Black-backed Gull    	   (933)
Caspian Tern			   (1)
Royal Tern				   (9)
Common Tern			         (853)
Forster's Tern			   (8)
Least Tern			   	   (23)
Black Tern			  	   (2)

Eastern Kingbird			   (1)
Fish Crow			         (1)
Barn Swallow			   (23)
European Starling			   (5)
Brown-headed Cowbird		   (18)
Red-winged Blackbird         	   (215)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601

 

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