Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from Dec 28, 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 Dec 28, 2005.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 

	
SPECIES			

Horned Grebe		  (4)
Double-crested Cormorant  (1)
Great Blue Heron          (18)
Canada Goose		  (69)
Tundra Swan	  		  (43)
Gadwall			  (27)
American Black Duck       (110)
Mallard                   (122)
Northern Shoveler		  (96)

Northern Pintail		  (26)
Greater Scaup		  (31)
Lesser Scaup		  (471)
Surf Scoter			  (91)
White-winged Scoter	  (5)
Black Scoter		  (158)
Long-tailed Duck		  (255)
Bufflehead			  (364)
Hooded Merganser		  (1)
Ruddy Duck			  (106)

Bald Eagle			  (2)
Northern Harrier		  (1)
Black-bellied Plover	  (1)
Killdeer			  (2)
Sanderling			  (184)
Western Sandpiper		  (2)
Least Sandpiper		  (1)
Purple Sandpiper		  (36)
Dunlin			  (793)

Bonaparte's Gull		  (1)
Ring-billed Gull		  (27)
Herring Gull              (332)
Great Black-backed Gull   (134)
Song Sparrow		  (5)
Snow Bunting		  (20)
Red-winged Blackbird      (80)

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601