Hi --
I am posting this for Sherman Suter, our "scribe", as he is having some
issues with his email -- this trip was our last of the season. A tremendous
drop-off in terns but ducks are coming in.
Gail Mackiernan & Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD
From Sherman:
MD; Talbot Co: Popular Island Environmental Restoration Site;
14 September 2009: 0920 to 1250 EDT
Barry Cooper + 15 observers;
By bus with frequent stops: checked S end Cell 2 from SE corner; S along E
side to SE corner Cell 5; back up central dike (with two stops to check
Cell 6); stop at headquarters; N along E side of island to N end Cell 2;
also checked flats and pool at N end of cell from access point on central
dike);
21 to 26 C; 6 km/hr NNW to 8 km/hr WNS; sunny; high tide (Tilghman Island)
c. 1230;
larger numbers are very rough estimates (more exact counts for the island
for the day will be provided by Jan Reese)
Canada Goose 15
American Black Duck 25
Mallard 1600
Blue-winged Teal 3
N Shoveler 300
N Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 250
Surf Scoter 9
Ruddy Duck 1
Double-crested Cormorant 350
Great Blue Heron 45
Great Egret 12
Snowy Egret 15
Little Blue Heron 6 (im)
Osprey 7
Bald Eagle 8 (4 ad, 4 im)
N Harrier 4
MERLIN 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 5
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER 2
Semipalmated Plover 55
Killdeer 65
AMERICAN AVOCET 26
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet (Western) 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 375
MARBLED GODWIT 1
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 200
Semipalmated Sandpiper 550
Western Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 850
peep spp. 400
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 10
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 3
Pectoral Sandpiper 55
Dunlin 5
Stilt Sandpiper 35
Short-Billed Dowitcher 2
PHALAROPE species 2 (seen in distance just as we had to leave, but probably
Red-necked)
Laughing Gull 550
Ring-Billed Gull 60
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 75
Caspian Tern 2
BLACK TERN 1
Common Tern 3
Forster's Tern 4
Fish Crow 5
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 3
Euro Starling 200
Palm Warbler 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 450
Brown-headed Cowbird 600
57 species (including 22 shorebirds)
Sherman Suter
Port Republic MD 20676 / Alexandria VA 22307 |