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Poplar Island Sightings from Aug 30 through Sep 5, 2005

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Les Roslund

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Les Roslund

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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:42:11 -0400

Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Aug 30 through Sep 5, 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 over the periof of Aug 30
through Sep 5, 2005.  There were visits to Poplar Island on Aug 30, Sep 1,
Sep 3 and Sep 5. The numbers below indicate the maximum number for a
particular day for each species that was seen on any of those four days.
Some of the birds were seen from the boat during the trips from Tilghman
Island and back. 

SPECIES			

D-C Cormorant	        (496)
Great Blue Heron          (19)
Great Egret			  (1)
Snowy Egret			  (41)
Cattle Egret		  (5)
Black-crowned Night Heron (1)
Canada Goose              (14)
European Mute Swan        (34)

American Black Duck       (26)
Mallard                   (598)
Blue-winged Teal		  (41)
Northern Shoveler		  (15)
Northern Pintail		  (3)
Green-winged Teal		  (52)
Ruddy Duck			  (3)
Osprey			  (18)
Bald Eagle			  (7)

Black-bellied Plover	  (19)
American Golden Plover	  (8)
Semipalmated Plover       (150)
Killdeer			  (28)
AMERICAN AVOCET		  (1)
Greater Yellowlegs	  (10)
Lesser Yellowlegs		  (1098)
Willet			  (6)
Spotted Sandpiper		  (3)
HUDSONIAN GODWIT		  (1)
MARBLED GODWIT		  (2)

Ruddy Turnstone	        (14)
RED KNOT			  (2)
Sanderling                (171)
Semipalmated Sandpiper    (2628)
Western Sandpiper		  (5)
Least Sandpiper		  (181)
White-rumped Sandpiper	  (3)
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER		  (2)
Pectoral Sandpiper	  (129)
Stilt Sandpiper		  (17)
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER	  (1)
Short-billed Dowitcher    (78)
WILSON'S PHALAROPE	  (3)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE	  (11)

Laughing Gull		  (783)
Ring-billed Gull		  (41)
Herring Gull              (346)
Great Black-backed Gull   (1504)
Caspian Tern		  (15)
Royal Tern		        (10)
Common Tern		        (475)
Forster's Tern		  (6)
Least Tern			  (11)
Black Tern			  (3)
Chimney Swift		  (1)
American Crow		  (7)
Fish Crow			  (1)
Tree Swallow		  (99)
Bank Swallow	        (12)
Barn Swallow		  (57)

Carolina Wren		  (1)
European Starling         (26)
Yellow Warbler		  (1)
Common Yellowthroat	  (1)
Red-winged Blackbird      (166)
Common Grackle		  (403)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601