Date: 5/21/13 5:55 am
From: Les Roslund <lesroslund...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Fwd: Poplar Island Sightings for 9 May 2013
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From: Les Roslund <lroslund...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:02:46 -0400
Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from May 9, 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, May 2013, Fauna Monitoring Report
for the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.

Strong northeast wind for 18 consecutive days (21 April - 8 May) grounded
north transient birds. The wind finally subsided and we came under a south
breeze during the morning of 8 May providing the tail wind the birds needed
to continue their movement north. This PI bird census reflects the past
24-hours mass movement with over 2,000 shorebirds and a sprinkling of
songbirds like swallows, warblers and sparrows.

--- Jan Reese

Weather: Hazy Overcast Early am, partly sunny thereafter.
Temp: 58-66 degrees F

SPECIES Number of birds

Snow Goose (2)
Canada Goose (6)
American Wigeon (1)
American Black Duck (31)
Mallard (348)
Green-winged Teal (5)
Ruddy Duck (7)
Common Loon (4)
Double-crested Cormorant (2843)

Great Blue Heron (100)
Great Egret (5)
Snowy Egret (16)
Cattle Egret (16)
Black-crowned Night Heron (2)
Glossy Ibis (4)
Osprey (55)
Bald Eagle (4)
Northern Harrier (1)
Peregrine Falcon (1)

Virginia Rail (2)
Black-bellied Plover (5)
Semipalmated Plover (43)
Killdeer (29)
American Oystercatcher (2)
Black-necked Stilt (12)
Greater Yellowlegs (9)
Lesser Yellowlegs (83)
Willet (15)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Sanderling (1)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (75)

Least Sandpiper (1833)
Dunlin (753)
Stilt Sandpiper (2)
Short-billed Dowitcher (11)
Red-necked Phalarope (1)
Herring Gull (907)
Great Black-backed Gull (93)
Caspian Tern (158)
Royal Tern (2)
Common Tern (12)
Forster's Tern (17)
Least Tern (20)

Eastern Kingbird (2)
American Crow (1)
Fish Crow (16)
Horned Lark (7)
Purple Martin (22)
Tree Swallow (53)
Barn Swallow (12)
Carolina Wren (1)
European Starling (8)
Gray Catbird (1)
Yellow Warbler (3)
Yellow-throated Warbler (1)

Seaside Sparrow (2)
Song Sparrow (1)
White-throated Sparrow (1)
Red-winged Blackbird (439)
--
Les Roslund
Easton, MD

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