Date:         Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:45:04 -0500
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From:         Les Roslund <lroslund@BLUECRAB.ORG>
Subject:      Snow Buntings & Purple Sandpipers - Poplar Island
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    The report below was provided by Jan Reese of the Talbot County Chapter
of MOS.  Jan has recently begun a series of census visits to Poplar Island
as part of the Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project (PIERP).
PIERP is being performed under the auspices of the US Army Corp of
Engineers.
       Right now Poplar Island is a very active construction site, and hence
is not suitable for public access.  Jan gets access in order to census the
flora and fauna.  He has graciously offered to let his bird sightings be
reported  via MDOSPREY, so this is the first of what will be a series of
reports from Poplar Island. Through the winter he plans to visit the island
on a monthly basis. In spring and summer visits will probably be more
frequent.
    Highlights from Jan's  November 15 visit are as follows:
Common Loon - 12
Brown Pelican - 1
DC Cormorant - 29
Gt Blue Heron - 15
Northern Shoveler - 112
Lesser Scaup - 1069
Ruddy Duck - 1946
Black-bellied Plover - 2
Semipalmated Plover - 8
Killdeer - 26
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
Sanderling - 98
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 6
Least Sandpiper - 34
Purple Sandpiper - 53
Dunlin - 206
Laughing Gull - 1
Herring Gull - 365
Great Black-backed Gull - 398
Royal Tern - 6
American Pipit - 5
Snow Bunting - 13

Les Roslund
lroslund@bluecrab.org
Talbot County
Easton MD

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