Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Oct 31, 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 Oct 31, 2005.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 

	
SPECIES			

Common Loon			  (5)
Horned Grebe		  (1)
D-C Cormorant	        (84)
Great Blue Heron          (31)
Canada Goose		  (22)
European Mute Swan	  (1)
American Black Duck       (57)
Mallard                   (61)
Northern Shoveler		  (674)
Northern Pintail		  (6)
Green-winged Teal		  (33)
Lesser Scaup		  (78)
Surf Scoter			  (16)
White-winged Scoter	  (10)
Black Scoter		  (3)
Bufflehead			  (8)
Ruddy Duck			  (492)

Bald Eagle			  (7)
Northern Harrier		  (4)
Black-bellied Plover	  (23)
Semipalmated Plover       (14)
Killdeer			  (7)
Greater Yellowlegs	  (1)
Ruddy Turnstone		  (1)
Sanderling                (261)
Least Sandpiper		  (81)
Dunlin			  (332)
Laughing Gull		  (12)
Ring-billed Gull		  (28)
Herring Gull              (422)
Great Black-backed Gull   (1281)

Forster"s Tern		  (45)
Northern Flicker		  (1)
Tree Swallow		  (7)
Carolina Wren		  (2)
European Starling         (53)
American Pipit		  (6)
Song Sparrow		  (5)
Red-winged Blackbird      (61)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601