Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from August 23, 30 and September 8, 2008
This report is submitted on behalf of Jan Reese of Talbot
County, who continues to periodically survey the flora and fauna of the Paul
Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.
These sightings include the birds seen over a 3-week period.
Some of the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from Tilghman
Island and back.
Weather: 8/23 overcast early am, partly sunny pm; Temp range 74-81
degrees F
8/30 heavy overcast with mist am, partly sunny pm; Temp
range 74-82
9/8 mostly clear am and pm
SPECIES Number of birds(8/23, 8/30, 9/8)
Double-crested Cormorant (1452,656,361)
Great Blue Heron (82,44,70)
Great Egret (3,0,1)
Snowy Egret (32,19,53)
Cattle Egret (0,1,0)
Canada Goose (2,13,3)
European Mute Swan (4,5,0)
American Black Duck (4,0,2)
Mallard (300,323,540)
Blue-winged Teal (122,19,3)
Northern Shoveler (16,121,140)
Northern Pintail (1,0,1)
Green-winged Teal (3,43,61)
Surf Scoter (2,0,0)
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (0,1,0)
Osprey (28,17,13)
Bald Eagle (5,13,5)
Northern Harrier (1,0,0)
Peregrine Falcon (0,1,0)
Black-bellied Plover (38,25,23)
American Golden Plover (0,0,2)
Semipalmated Plover (214,91,50)
Killdeer (47,45,47)
Black-necked Stilt (4,3,0)
American Avocet (0,15,4)
Greater Yellowlegs (0,0,2)
Lesser Yellowlegs (60,58,105)
Willet (3,6,7)
Hudsonian Godwit (2,0,0)
Spotted Sandpiper (10,4,3)
Ruddy Turnstone (7,2,10)
Sanderling (99,91,181)
Least Sandpiper (608,348,278)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (685,500,28)
Baird's Sandpiper (0,0,2)
White-rumped Sandpiper (1,0,0)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (0,2,0)
Western Sandpiper (0,3,0)
Pectoral Sandpiper (5,0,4)
Stilt Sandpiper (4,2,0)
Short-billed Dowitcher (26,14,13)
Wilson's Phalarope (0,2,2)
Red-necked Phalarope (0,1,0)
Laughing Gull (123,96,166)
Bonaparte's Gull (1,0,1)
Ring-billed Gull (22,21,21)
Herring Gull (793,769,1067)
Great Black-backed Gull (3243,1811,1564)
Caspian Tern (5,3,4)
Royal Tern (4,4,7)
Common Tern (487,270,628)
Least Tern (100,0,0)
Black Tern (7,1,1)
Chimney Swift (0,1,0)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1,1,0)
Downy Woodpecker (1,0,0)
American Crow (3,7,0)
Purple Martin (0,2,0)
Tree Swallow (1,3,0)
Bank Swallow (45,5,0)
Barn Swallow (12,8,1)
Carolina Wren (0,1,1)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2,0,2)
Yellow Warbler (0,3,0)
European Starling (53,5,6)
SEASIDE SPARROW (1,0,0)
Savannah Sparrow (0,0,1)
Bobolink* (0,0,4)
Red-winged Blackbird (178,28,422)
Brown-headed Cowbird (548,255,350)
American Goldfinch (1,1,0)
* = New for the island
Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601 |