Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:45:34 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Les Roslund Subject: Poplar Island Sightings - May 29, 2003 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jan Reese of the Talbot County Chapter of MOS has provided the following list of birds that he saw on his most recent visit to Poplar Island (May 29, 2003). Common Loon - 4 Horned Grebe - 2 RED-NECKED GREBE - 2 DC Cormorant - 859 Brown Pelican - 3 Snowy Egret - 2 Black Duck - 10 Mallard - 42 Surf Scoter - 17 White-winged Scoter - 1 Black Scoter -1 Long-tailed Duck - 3 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER - 3 Killdeer - 9 Semi-palmated Sandpiper - 18 Willet - 6 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS - 37 (most in full breeding plumage) Ruddy Turnstone - 19 Sanderling - 1 And Shorebirds by the 1000's - far too many to separate out all of the numbers of all of the species; Mostly Semi-palmated Sandpipers (one flock of 2600) White-rumped Sandpiper - 10 (at least) Least Sandpiper - 8 (at least) Dunlin - 695 WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1 Herring Gull - 450 Great Black-backed Gull - 174 Common Tern - 555 Least Tern - 6 Les Roslund lroslund@bluecrab.org Talbot County Easton, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================