Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from August 17, 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 Aug 17, 2006.  Some of
the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman Island and
back. 
		Weather:  Clear to partly cloudy am & pm ,  Temp range 76-84
degrees F
	
SPECIES		   
Common Loon			  (2)
Double-crested Cormorant  (844)
Great Blue Heron          (64)
Great Egret			  (4)
Snowy Egret			  (57)
Green Heron			  (1)
Turkey Vulture		  (2)
Canada Goose		  (61)
European Mute Swan	  (7)
American Black Duck       (11)
Mallard                   (69)
Northern Shoveler		  (82)
Green-winged Teal		  (5)
Surf Scoter			  (2)
White-winged Scoter	  (1)
Black Scoter		  (3)

Ruddy Duck			  (3)
Osprey			  (26)
Bald Eagle			  (5)
Northern Harrier		  (1)
Peregrine Falcon		  (1)
Clapper Rail		  (1)
Black-bellied Plover	  (16)
Semipalmated Plover	  (334)
Killdeer			  (38)
American Oystercatcher	  (1)
AMERICAN AVOCET		  (39)

Greater Yellowlegs	  (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs	  	  (532)
Willet			  (11)
SPOTTED SANDPIPER	        (30)
MARBLED GODWIT		  (3)
Ruddy Turnstone		  (3)
Sanderling			  (31)
Semipalmated Sandpiper	  (4188)
Least Sandpiper		  (270)
Pectoral Sandpiper	  (32)
Stilt Sandpiper		  (6)
Short-billed Dowitcher	  (121)
WILSON'S PHALAROPE	  (4)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE	  (1)

Laughing Gull		  (922)
Ring-billed Gull		  (67)
Herring Gull              (426)
Great Black-backed Gull   (2185)
Caspian Tern		  (15)
Royal Tern			  (29)
Common Tern			  (1582)
FORSTER'S TERN	        (390)
Least Tern			  (136)
Black Tern			  (3)

Eastern Kingbird		  (2)
American Crow		  (1)
Purple Martin		  (1)
Tree Swallow		  (2)
Bank Swallow		  (4)
Barn Swallow		  (145)
Carolina Wren		  (1)
European Starling		  (1)
YELLOW WARBLER		  (2)
Red-winged Blackbird      (467)
Common Grackle		  (240)

 
Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601