Hi all,
05/12/06 - 830am-920am
Knapps Narrows Bridge area "MES Land Base", off of
Walnut Point Rd., Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD
WEATHER: Sunny, 55-57 degrees, E 5 mph- ESE 8 mph
Mallard - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 2
Great Blue Heron - 1
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Killdeer - 1
Willet - 2
Dunlin - 6
Laughing Gull - 7
Herring Gull - 23
Great Black-backed Gull - 6
Least Tern - 2
Mourning Dove - 2
American Crow - 1
Barn Swallow - 8
American Robin - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 9
Carolina Wren - 1
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 7
Common Grackle - 10
House Sparrow - 6
SPECIES: 24
TOTAL BIRDS: 109
05/14/07 - 920am-140pm
Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project, now
called Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project
on Poplar Island (SERPI), Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD
WEATHER: Sunny, 57-68 degrees, ESE 8 mph- SSW 6 mph
LEADER: Robin Batcheller
OBSERVERS: 10
Canada Goose - 8
Mute Swan - 2
American Black Duck - 6
Mallard - 137 (3 hens w/ 8, 4 & 7 ducklings)
Scaup sp. - 2
White-winged Scoter - 1 (male)
Black Scoter - 2 (1 young male, 2 females)
Long-tailed Duck - 6 (3 prs.)
Common Loon - 2
Horned Grebe - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 761
Great Blue Heron - 50 (many at nests)
Great Egret - 1
Snowy Egret - 3
Turkey Vulture - 5
Osprey - 21
Bald Eagle - 1
Black-bellied Plover - 10
Semipalmated Plover - 57
Killdeer - 4
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2
Willet - 4
Spotted Sandpiper - 3 (2 along seawalls)
Sanderling - 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 8
Least Sandpiper - 215
Purple Sandpiper - 4
Dunlin - 543
Stilt Sandpiper - 2
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1 (female)
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 1 (female)
Ring-billed Gull - 1
Herring Gull - 501
Great Black-backed Gull - 96
Caspian Tern - 1
Common Tern - 31
Forster's Tern - 1
Least Tern - 9
Fish Crow - 2
crow sp. - 2 (distance)
Horned Lark - 1
Tree Swallow - 7
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
Bank Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 21
European Starling - 2
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 56
Common Grackle - 11
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 (female)
SPECIES: 51
TOTAL BIRDS: 2622
REPTILES
Northern Water Snake - 1
BUTTERFLIES
Question Mark - 1
DAMSELFLIES
Forktail sp. - 1 (left quickly before I id's it)
***Next Baltimore Bird Club trip to Poplar Island will
be on Monday August 13, 2007. This is good time for
shorebird rarity and large # of waders before heading
south. I will be taking over as a coordinator starting
summer 2007. Gail Frantz who is retiring as of today.
For reservation or more info contact me at
We'll also have other Monday trips to Poplar Island on
March 10, 2008, May 12, 2008, & August 11, 2008. We'll
be departing 9am at Tilghman and return by 2pm. Thank
you, hope to see you there.***
Kevin Graff
Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
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