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Poplar Island, 03/08/10

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Kevin Graff

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Kevin Graff

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Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:13:17 -0800

Hi all,



  Wish had time for some stops on way down but with car briefly quit on me on Rt 18 in Kent Island and finally restart and nearly made me late for BBC trip to Poplar Island.   Good # of waterfowl and grebes around the island and thousands more at Black Walnut Point afterward. 
   

03/08/10 - 755am-805am
Route 50 - Kent Island, Rt 50., Stevensville, Queen Anne's Co., MD 

WEATHER: Sunny, 41 degrees, W 4 mph 

Snow Goose - 9 (w/ Canada Geese)
CACKLING "RICHARDSON'S" GOOSE - 1 (w/ geese)
Canada Goose - 890 (several flock headed N)
Mute Swan - 2
Tundra Swan - 58 (w/ geese)
American Black Duck - 4 (Bay Bridge Pond)
Mallard - 6 (Cox Creek area)
Canvasback - 35 (Cox Creek area)
Lesser Scaup - 57 (Cox Creek area)
Bufflehead - 5
Common Merganser - 3 (headed N)
Turkey Vulture - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 9
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 1
European Starling - 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 7
Common Grackle - 6
SPECIES: 20
INDIVIDUALS: 1117

03/08/10 - 915am-1230pm
Poplar Island, Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Sunny, 45-53 degrees, NW 8 mph- N 9 mph
LEADERS: Robin Armetta, Andrew Franklin
OBSERVERS: 19
    
Canada Goose - 16
Tundra Swan - 15
American Black Duck - 36
Mallard - 175
Northern Shoveler - 9
Northern Pintail - 50
Green-winged Teal - 6
Redhead - 12
Greater Scaup - 96
Lesser Scaup - 30
Surf Scoter - 1060 (880 on way to island)
White-winged Scoter - 12
Black Scoter - 6
Long-tailed Duck - 1135 (750 on way to island)
Bufflehead - 110
Common Goldeneye - 17
Red-breasted Merganser - 5
Ruddy Duck - 20
Common Loon - 9
Horned Grebe - 219
Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (seen by few)
Great Blue Heron - 10
Bald Eagle - 2
Northern Harrier - 2
Killdeer - 26
Sanderling - 18
Dunlin - 160
BLACK-HEADED GULL - 1 (seen briefly by J Stasz & H Holbrook)
Ring-billed Gull - 164
Herring Gull - 45
Great Black-backed Gull - 8
Fish Crow - 1
Tree Swallow - 1 (seen by E Boyd, D Ford, couple others)
European Starling - 75
American Pipit - 1 (heard by E Boyd, H Holbrook, D Ford) 
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 1
Red-winged Blackbird - 90
SPECIES: 38
INDIVIDUALS: 3646


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD