The Baltimore Bird Club field trip to Poplar Island led by Gail Frantz was another success despite the delay caused by the accident on the Bay Bridge.  We were able to spend about three hours on the tour.  Because of the abbreviated time the following numbers are rough estimates:

Common Loon  2
Horned Grebe  50
DC Cormorant  6 flew over heading N
Great Blue Heron  10
Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  4
Tundra Swan  30
Black Duck  30
Mallard  50
Shoveler  80
Greater Scaup  30
Lesser Scaup  200
Surf Scoter  3,000
White-winged Scoter  1 male (Bob only)
Black Scoter  200
Long-tailed Duck  600
Bufflehead  300
Goldeneye  10
Red-breasted Merganser  1 male
Ruddy Duck  5
Duck, sp.  1,000 probably mostly scoters, scaup, and Long-tails
Bald Eagle  2 adults
Killdeer  10
Sanderling  100
Dunlin  250
Bonaparte's Gull  3 in non-breeding plumage
Ring-billed Gull  20
Herring Gull  400
Great Black-back  25
Starling  3
Song Sparrow  10
Cowbird  15


   Other birds seen by Bill Ellis and myself during the remainder of the afternoon:

Common Merganser - 40 at Covey's Landing, Caroline/Talbot Co.
Greater Yellowlegs - 7 flying over Covey's Landing, Caroline/Talbot Co.
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 flying over Covey's landing, Caroline/Talbot Co.
Woodcock - 1 heard at dusk on Kent Island
Forster's Tern - 1 flying over the Miles River Bridge, Talbot Co.
Northern Shrike - 1 adult at Pickering Creek Audubon Center
Pine Warbler - 1 singing near Todds Corner, Talbot Co.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD