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From: Les Roslund <lroslund...>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:39:15 -0400
Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from October 8, 2012
This report is submitted on behalf of Jan Reese of Talbot County, who
continues to periodically survey the flora and fauna of the Paul Sarbanes
Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.
The summary of bird observations that follows was taken by permission
from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and MD Port Administration, October
2012, Fauna Monitoring Report for the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration
Project at Poplar Island.
Favorable south transient conditions during the past two weeks, plus
on-going site work may have enabled transient departure while discouraging
or driving away many birds from the area as indicated by the decrease in
shorebirds and surface-feeding waterfowl. Conversely, diving Ruddy Ducks
increased, predators retain an obvious presence, and the herbaceous
vegetation continues to harbor songbirds.
Although Pelicans were not seen at the project sit, they could b e seen at
bait-fish feeding-frenzies of Laughing Gulls of the Bay Hundred Peninsula
east of the island.
--- Jan Reese
Weather: Partly cloudy early am, Overcast with drizzle pm
Temp: 48-55 degrees F
SPECIES Number of birds
Canada Goose (18)
American Black Duck (32)
Mallard (35)
Northern Shoveler (204)
Northern Pintail (5)
Green-winged Teal (281)
Lesser Scaup (7)
Ruddy Duck (1300)
American White Pelican (4)
Brown Pelican (1)
Double-crested Cormorant (594)
Great Blue Heron (10)
Great Egret (10)
Snowy Egret (4)
Bald Eagle (13)
Northern Harrier (2)
Merlin (1)
Peregrine Falcon (3)
Black-bellied Plover (21)
American Golden Plover (1)
Killdeer (66)
Greater Yellowlegs (15)
Lesser Yellowlegs (213)
Sanderling (40)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (69)
Dunlin (63)
Short-billed Dowitcher (1)
Laughing Gull (818)
Ring-billed Gull (25)
Herring Gull (42)
Great Black-backed Gull (126)
Caspian Tern (1)
Royal Tern (4)
Northern Flicker (3)
Eastern Phoebe (1)
Horned Lark (2)
Tree Swallow (103)
European Starling (43)
American Pipit (45)
Palm Warbler (9)
Savannah Sparrow (5)
Swamp Sparrow (1)
Red-winged Blackbird (361)
Brown-headed Cowbird (150)
Les Roslund
Easton MD 21601
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