Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Sep 19, 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 Sep 19, 2005.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 

	Also - A CORRECTION - In the listings for the period Aug 30 to Sep 5
the final entry species should have been listed as Brown-headed Cowbird (not
Common Grackle).

SPECIES			

D-C Cormorant	        (195)
Great Blue Heron          (27)
Great Egret			  (1)
Snowy Egret			  (26)
Cattle Egret		  (2)
American Wigeon		  (1)
American Black Duck       (2)
Mallard                   (75)
Blue-winged Teal		  (20)
Northern Shoveler		  (408)
Green-winged Teal		  (181)
Ruddy Duck			  (3)

Osprey			  (7)
Bald Eagle			  (7)
American Kestrel		  (1)
Merlin			  (1)
Peregrine Falcon		  (1)
Black-bellied Plover	  (16)
American Golden Plover	  (7)
Semipalmated Plover       (233)
Killdeer			  (17)
AMERICAN AVOCET		  (24)
Greater Yellowlegs	  (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs		  (322)

Willet			  (1)
Spotted Sandpiper		  (2)
HUDSONIAN GODWIT		  (1)
Ruddy Turnstone	        (11)
Sanderling                (365)
Semipalmated Sandpiper    (1161)
Least Sandpiper		  (80)
White-rumped Sandpiper	  (2)
Pectoral Sandpiper	  (249)
Stilt Sandpiper		  (3)
Short-billed Dowitcher    (1)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE	  (1)

Laughing Gull		  (804)
Ring-billed Gull		  (35)
Herring Gull              (438)
Great Black-backed Gull   (1885)
Caspian Tern		  (8)
Royal Tern		        (2)
Forster's Tern		  (2)
European Starling         (10)
American Pipit		  (2)
Palm Warbler		  (1)
Northern Cardinal		  (1)
Red-winged Blackbird      (25)
Brown-headed Cowbird	  (96)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601