Date: 4/25/13 6:38 pm
From: Les Roslund <lesroslund...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Fwd: Poplar Island Sightings for 24 April 2013
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From: Les Roslund <lroslund...>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:28:43 -0400
Subject: Poplar Island Sightings for 24 April 2013
To: Les Roslund <lroslund...>

Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from April 24, 2013
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, April 2013, Fauna Monitoring Report
for the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.

Recent continuing daily strong winds, cool temperatures, and time
constraints hampered census efforts and resulted in a less than ideal
census. The buffeting winds reduce the usefulness of spotting scopes, and
the same winds ruin audio detection of many of the songbirds. Regardless,
some wintering surface-feeding waterfowl are still represented, four of the
observed shorebird species represent early north transients, and local
nesting species numbers continue to increase.
--- Jan Reese

Weather: Clear, Hazy Early am, partly cloudy thereafter.
Temp: 53-68 degrees F

SPECIES Number of birds

Canada Goose (4)
American Black Duck (38)
Mallard (457)
Northern Shoveler (63)
Green-winged Teal (31)
Greater Scaup (3)
Surf Scoter (4)
Long-tailed Duck (1)
Ruddy Duck (1)
Common Loon (1)
Horned Grebe (3)
Double-crested Cormorant (2662)


Great Blue Heron (13)
Great Egret (1)
Snowy Egret (12)
Black-crowned Night Heron (1)
Turkey Vulture (1)
Osprey (54)
Bald Eagle (6)
Northern Harrier (1)
Semipalmated Plover (1)
Killdeer (35)
Black-necked Stilt (6)

Greater Yellowlegs (13)
Lesser Yellowlegs (1)
Willet (11)
Least Sandpiper (23)
Dunlin (544)
Herring Gull (584)
Great Black-backed Gull (51)
Caspian Tern (7)
Royal Tern (2)
Least Tern (1)
Fish Crow (8)
Horned Lark (3)
Purple Martin (8)
Tree Swallow (61)
Barn Swallow (2)

European Starling (5)
Savannah Sparrow (5)
Song Sparrow (6)
White-Crowned Sparrow (4)
Red-winged Blackbird (376)
Common Grackle (4)

Les Roslund
Easton MD 21601

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