Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Aug 22, 2005



            This report is submitted on behalf of Jan Reese of Talbot
County, who continues to periodically survey the flora and fauna of Poplar
Island.  

            These sightings include the birds seen on August 22, 2005.  Some
of the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island
and back. 

SPECIES			

D-C Cormorant	        (1032)
Great Blue Heron          (22)
Snowy Egret			  (51)
Cattle Egret		  (5)
Canada Goose              (2)
European Mute Swan        (23)

American Black Duck       (18)
Mallard                   (383)
Ruddy Duck			  (3)
Osprey			  (31)
Bald Eagle			  (4)

Black-bellied Plover	  (1)
Semipalmated Plover       (69)
Killdeer			  (13)
BLACK-NECKED STILT	  (1)
Greater Yellowlegs	  (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs		  (273)
Willet			  (3)
Spotted Sandpiper		  (2)

Ruddy Turnstone	        (5)
Sanderling                (183)
Semipalmated Sandpiper    (309)
Least Sandpiper		  (93)
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER		  (2)
Pectoral Sandpiper	  (3)
Stilt Sandpiper		  (9)
Short-billed Dowitcher    (50)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE	  (2)

Laughing Gull		  (145)
Ring-billed Gull		  (27)
Herring Gull              (363)
Great Black-backed Gull   (1435)
Royal Tern		        (27)
Caspian Tern		  (6)
Common Tern		        (619)
Forster's Tern		  (5)
Least Tern			  (1)
Black Tern			  (7)
American Crow		  (3)
Tree Swallow		  (2)
Bank Swallow	        (10)
Barn Swallow		  (12)

European Starling         (1)
Brown-headed Cowbird	  (4)
Red-winged Blackbird      (78)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601