Photos taken on the Poplar Island trip by Sue Earp are available at
http://www.howardbirds.org/records/fieldtrips/20070824PoplarIsland.htm
(Photos of island and birders only)

Bob Solem
Laurel, MD 20723
  

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From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Stan Arnold
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 5:01 PM
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] Poplar Island, 8/24; Talbot & Wicomico sightings

Hi again folks,

Elaine and I accompanied the Howard Co. Bird Club for a trip to Poplar
Island (Talbot Co.) on Friday, 24 August...

It was a beautiful day to visit POPLAR ISLAND; a bit warm and humid, but a
pleasant breeze most of the time.  Birds seen on or from the island (numbers
above 9 are estimates):

    Poplar Island, TALBOT Co.:
Mute Swan--3
Am. Black Duck--4
Mallard--37
Teal, sp.--25 (flyovers that no one could get on from our vehicles) N.
Shoveler--25 BROWN PELICAN--5 DC Cormorant--100+ GB Heron--25 Great Egret--3
Snowy Egret--3 Green Heron--1 (not on the island checklist??) Osprey--50
Bald Eagle--8 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER--1, still in breeding plumage
Semipalmated Plover--50
Killdeer--1
Greater Yellowlegs--3
Lesser Yellowlegs--25
Willet--3
Spotted Sandpiper--3
RUDDY TURNSTONE--3
Sanderling--18
Semipalmated Sandpiper--100s
WESTERN SANDPIPER--6 (good close views)
Least Sandpiper--100s
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER--1 (good comparison w. Semipal.) Pectoral
Sandpiper--1 Short-billed Dowitcher--2 WILSON'S PHALAROPE--3 Laughing
Gull--100s Ring-billed Gull--2 Herring Gull--100s Great Black-backed
Gull--1000+ Caspian Tern--2 Royal Tern--2 Common Tern--10 Forster's
Tern--100s Least Tern--1 BLACK TERN--1 (juv with brownish-gray plumage and
red legs) Purple Martin--15 Tree Swallow--1 Bank Swallow--4 Barn Swallow--2
Red-winged Blackbird--25 Common Grackle--2 Brown-headed Cowbird--40
..
Stan Arnold
Glen Burnie