Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Sep 30, 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 30, 2005.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 

	
SPECIES			

D-C Cormorant	        (77)
Great Blue Heron          (22)
Snowy Egret			  (26)
Cattle Egret		  (2)
European Mute Swan	  (3)
American Black Duck       (7)
Mallard                   (24)
Northern Shoveler		  (462)
Northern Pintail		  (28)
Green-winged Teal		  (5)
Ruddy Duck			  (11)

Osprey			  (1)
Bald Eagle			  (3)
Merlin			  (1)
Peregrine Falcon		  (1)
Virginia Rail		  (1)
Black-bellied Plover	  (26)
American Golden Plover	  (4)
Semipalmated Plover       (16)
Killdeer			  (14)
Lesser Yellowlegs		  (94)

Sanderling                (16)
Semipalmated Sandpiper    (15)
Least Sandpiper		  (49)
Baird's Sandpiper		  (1)
Pectoral Sandpiper	  (30)
Stilt Sandpiper		  (1)
Laughing Gull		  (89)
Ring-billed Gull		  (14)
Herring Gull              (162)
Great Black-backed Gull   (1278)

Caspian Tern		  (4)
Royal Tern		        (2)
Eastern Phoebe		  (1)
Bank Swallow		  (1)
Carolina Wren		  (1)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	  (2)
European Starling         (20)
Savannah Sparrow		  (1)
Song Sparrow		  (1)
Red-winged Blackbird      (4)
Brown-headed Cowbird	  (79)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601