Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from November 9, 2009

       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.
      Note particularly the increase in duck numbers and species, and the
arrival of Purple Sandpipers, Tundra Swans and Common Loons.
			
	Weather: Clear, hazy am & overcast pm     Temp: degrees F 49-62
	
SPECIES				Number of birds
Common Loon				   (7)
Double-crested Cormorant	   (61)
Great Blue Heron		    	   (22)
Snowy Egret				   (1)
Canada Goose		 	 	   (102)
Tundra Swan				   (4)
Gadwall					   (9)
American Wigeon			   (2)
American Black Duck	  	   (141)
Mallard                  	   (517)

Northern Shoveler			   (72)
Northern Pintail			   (57)
Green-winged Teal			   (244)
Lesser Scaup			       (2397)
Surf Scoter				   (2700)
Bufflehead				   (30)
Ruddy Duck				   (511)
Bald Eagle				   (3)
Northern Harrier			   (2)
Peregrine Falcon			   (1)
Black-bellied Plover		   (18)
Killdeer			   	       (30)

Sanderling				   (124)
Least Sandpiper			   (12)
Purple Sandpiper			   (2)
Dunlin				       (372)
Wilson's Snipe			   (1)
Ring-billed Gull			   (14)
Herring Gull        	  	   (78)
Great Black-backed Gull      (964)
Red-bellied Woodpecker	   (1)
Fish Crow				   (12)
Horned Lark				   (13)

Golden-crowned Kinglet	   (1)
Eastern Bluebird			   (5)
European Starling	            (30)
American Pipit			   (8)
Song Sparrow			       (20)
Red-winged Blackbird         (134)
American Goldfinch		   (31)


Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601


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