Hi all  I am going to report a few of the highlights   of the Poplar Island trip on 8  - 19  - 08   put together by Jim Green   A few Talbot Bird Club Members made it as well . Great seeing  all  those  that were  there   great birding and a good day.Maybe someone will post the whole list . Some of the recent good  finds were not around  but  we found others to  take  place of those not located .  Thanks Jim 

Mute Swan   3 
Red Breasted Merganser       1 female
D. C. Cormorant         many
Great Blue Heron 
Snowy Egret 
Little Blue Heron    1 immature 
Cattle Egret        1   
Osprey
Bald Eagle       1 adult 
Northern  Harrier       1
Peregrine   Falcon      1
Black Bellied  Plover   
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer
A. Oystercatcher      2  county bird 
American Avocet         A county  bird as well as year bird 
Lesser  Yellowlegs.
Willet         2   western form 
Spotted  Sandpiper   
Hudsonian Godwit       1
Ruddy Turnstone      2
Red Knot       2      What a grand  State  and county Bird 
Sanderling 
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper  
Short Billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull   
Bonaparte's Gull       1  first for me this time of the year 
Caspian  Tern     
Royal Tern 
Common  Tern 
Forster's Tern 
Least Tern       1
Black Tern       3


Happy Birding 
Danny Poet
Queestown , Md
 



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