Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from June 6, 2006

            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 June 6, 2006.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 
		Weather:  Overcast am, Partly cloudy pm ,  Temp range 65-78
degrees F
	
SPECIES		   

Double-crested Cormorant  (887)
Great Blue Heron          (37)
Great Egret			  (1)
Snowy Egret			  (62)
Cattle Egret		  (9)
Turkey Vulture		  (14)
European Mute Swan	  (22)
American Black Duck       (31)
Mallard                   (220)

Lesser Scaup		  (1)
Surf Scoter			  (5)
Black Scoter		  (6)
Ruddy Duck			  (3)
Osprey			  (24)
Bald Eagle			  (5)
Black-bellied Plover	  (2)
Semipalmated Plover	  (42)
Killdeer			  (17)

American Oystercatcher	  (2)
Black-necked Stilt	  (1)
American Avocet		  (4)
Greater Yellowlegs	  (1)
Willet			  (22)
Spotted Sandpiper		  (1)
Ruddy Turnstone		  (2)
Sanderling			  (1)
Semipalmated Sandpiper	  (431)
Least Sandpiper		  (28)
White-rumped Sandpiper	  (5)
Dunlin			  (8)

Laughing Gull		  (18)
Herring Gull              (483)
Great Black-backed Gull   (100)
Caspian Tern		  (1)
Common Tern			  (413)
Forster's Tern		  (1)
Least Tern			  (16)
Black Tern			  (4)

Red-bellied Woodpecker	  (1)
Eastern Kingbird		  (1)
American Crow		  (2)
Fish Crow			  (1)
Purple Martin		  (1)
Tree Swallow		  (15)
Bank Swallow		  (9)
Barn Swallow		  (30)
Carolina Wren		  (1)
Red-winged Blackbird      (76)
Common Grackle		  (3)
  
 
Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601