MD Birding,
Yesterday on 8/29, 24 of us visited Poplar Island. The highlights were
large numbers of Blue-winged Teals, Brown Pelican, American Golden Plover,
Black-necked Stilts, American Avocet, Wilson's Phalarope, Red-necked
Phalarope, a great showing by Black Terns. Most strangely were the
unexpected passerines - Eastern Wood-Pewee, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,
Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, and Baltimore Oriole.
The complete list is below. I have updated it with some photos by Jeff
Culler and Bonnie Ott.
Joe
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11464362
Poplar Island, Talbot, US-MD
Aug 29, 2012 9:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
60 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 2
American Black Duck 8
Mallard 74
Blue-winged Teal 119 Close count
Northern Shoveler 87 Close count
Green-winged Teal (American) 5
Surf Scoter 3 Exact count
Ruddy Duck 4
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 371
Brown Pelican 2 Exact count
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 20
Cattle Egret 6
Osprey 17
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 3
Virginia Rail 1
American Golden-Plover 8
Semipalmated Plover 40
Killdeer 2
Black-necked Stilt 8 Continuing but with lesser numbers at this
breeding location.
American Avocet 64 Exact count
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Willet 1
Willet (Eastern) 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 54
Sanderling 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 260
Least Sandpiper 60
Pectoral Sandpiper 16
Dunlin 1 Only seen by a couple of people.
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Wilson's Phalarope 4 Nonbreeding, very pale, longer thin bill, grayish
brown back. Continuing.
Red-necked Phalarope 4 Small, dark back with white streaks, shorter
thin black bill. Photo by Jeff Culler.<a href="
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43440320@N04/7894438900/" title="Red-necked
Phalarope by cullerfuls, on Flickr"><img src="
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/7894438900_914b508f39.jpg"
alt="Red-necked Phalarope"></a>
Laughing Gull 120
Ring-billed Gull 23
Herring Gull (American) 196
Great Black-backed Gull 138
Least Tern 1
Caspian Tern 18
Black Tern 30 Continuing. This is a conservative count.
Common Tern 118
Forster's Tern 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 4
Horned Lark 7
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
European Starling 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Red-winged Blackbird 131
Baltimore Oriole 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD
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