Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from September 23,2008

       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. 
       Some of the birds were seen from the boat during the trip from
Tilghman Island and back. 
			
	Weather: Mostly sunny, few clouds am & pm;  Temp: 62-78 degrees F

	
SPECIES				Number of birds
Double-crested Cormorant	   (149)
Great Blue Heron		     	   (52)
Great Egret				   (1)
Snowy Egret			         (8)
Turkey Vulture			   (1)
Canada Goose		  	   (51)
Gadwall				   (3)
American Black Duck	  	   (25)
Mallard                    	   (68)
Northern Shoveler			   (308)
Northern Pintail			   (8)
Green-winged Teal			   (67)
Lesser Scaup			   (1)
Surf Scoter			         (10)
White-winged Scoter		   (1)
Black Scoter			   (1)

Osprey				   (2)
Bald Eagle			         (10)
Northern Harrier			   (2)
Sharp-shinned Hawk		   (1)
Merlin				   (1)
Peregrine Falcon			   (1)
Black-bellied Plover		   (10)
American Golden Plover		   (2)
Semipalmated Plover		   (16)
Killdeer			   	   (23)
American Avocet			   (2)
Lesser Yellowlegs			   (14) 
Willet				   (1)  

Spotted Sandpiper			   (1)
Sanderling				   (76)
Semipalmated Sandpiper	         (59)
Western Sandpiper		 	   (5)
Least Sandpiper			   (32)
White-rumped Sandpiper		   (4)
Pectoral Sandpiper		   (1)
Baird's Sandpiper			   (4)
Dunlin				   (1)
Short-billed Dowitcher		   (2)

Laughing Gull			   (41)
Ring-billed Gull		  	   (6)
Herring Gull        	  	   (1344)
Great Black-backed Gull    	   (2265)
Lesser Black-backed Gull	   (4)
Caspian Tern			   (9)
Royal Tern				   (9)
Forster's Tern			   (25)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	   (1)
Northern Flicker			   (1)

Horned Lark				   (1)
Tree Swallow		  	   (4)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher		   (1)
European Starling		         (13)
Northern Parula			   (1)
Magnolia Warbler			   (1)
Red-winged Blackbird      	   (435)
Brown-headed Cowbird		   (270)

 

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601