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Talbot Co: Poplar Island: 18 May 2009

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Sherman Suter

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Sherman Suter

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Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:06 -0400

MD; Talbot Co: Popular Island Environmental Restoration Site;
18 May 2009:  0915 to 1330 EDT
6 
Barry Cooper, Gail Mackiernan, + 16 observers;
By bus with frequent stops:  N from dock along E edge cells 3 & 1; south along W side same; E along S side cell 1; S along W side cells 4 & 5 to S end island; circled cell 5; N along W side of island to NE corner of cell 2; E to dock; failed to find a Least Bittern in NE corner cell 4;

12 to 15 C; NNE 10 to 24 km/hr;  overcast clearing to sunny w/ scattered clouds; high tide (Tilghman Island) c. 1130;

Canada Goose     8
American Black Duck     15
Mallard     215
Surf Scoter     1
Red-breasted Merganser     2
Pacific Loon     1
Double-crested Cormorant     600
Great Blue Heron     17
Snowy Egret     4
Turkey Vulture     2
Osprey     16
Bald Eagle     4   (2 ad, 1 sub-ad, 1 im)
Peregrine Falcon     2
Semipalmated Plover     25
Killdeer     17
Black-necked Stilt     2
Spotted Sandpiper     45
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Willet (Eastern)     7
Lesser Yellowlegs     3
Sanderling     3
Semipalmated Sandpiper     3500
Least Sandpiper     30
peep spp.     425
White-rumped Sandpiper     2
Purple Sandpiper     2
Dunlin     1000
Stilt Sandpiper     1
Short-Billed Dowitcher     25
Red-necked Phalarope     2
Laughing Gull     2
Herring Gull     700
Great Black-backed Gull     30
Common Tern     20
Mourning Dove     2
Eastern Kingbird     1
Fish Crow     6
Horned Lark     3
Purple Martin     6
Tree Swallow     20
N Rough-winged Swallow     2
Bank Swallow     12
Cliff Swallow     2
Barn Swallow     75
Euro Starling     3
Common Yellowthroat     1
Red-winged Blackbird     60
Common Grackle     1
Orchard Oriole     1

48 species

Sherman Suter
Port Republic MD 20676  /  Alexandria VA 22307
ssuter   aaas   org