The Baltimore Bird Club field trip to Poplar I on 5/7/04 enjoyed good weather and good birds.  Here are the Approximate numbers seen:

Mute Swan  40
Canada Goose  12
Black Duck  5
Mallard  30
Shoveler  3
Ruddy Duck  1
Double-crested Cormorant  300
Great Blue Heron  12
Snowy Egret  40
Osprey  10
Semipalmated Plover  100
Killdeer  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  25
Willet  8 (Eastern)
Spotted Sandpiper  5
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  75
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Least Sandpiper  150
Dunlin  300
Short-billed Dowitcher  9
Wilson's Phalarope - not in breeding plumage
Laughing Gull  3
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  200
Great Black-back  50
Common Tern  20
Least Tern  4
Black Tern  1 in breeding plumage
Kingfisher  1
Tree Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Cowbird

   The state is doing some fine habitat restoration there.  Thanks to Gail "We'll take any boat you've got" Frantz for setting it up for the bird club.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD