There were 24 of us on the Howard County Bird Club field trip to Poplar Island today. The highlights were an immature male King Eider, Lesser Scaup, Tricolored Heron 4, Black-necked Stilt 20, American Avocet 27, Western Sandpiper 203+, Wilson's Phalarope 1, Black Tern 1, Common Tern 354, and Seaside Sparrow 1. 

Thanks to Maryland Environmental Service, Jan Reese, and all of the excellent spotters on this trip.   



Our complete list is below.   





Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD 





Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD 
Location:     Poplar Island 
Observation date:     7/27/10 
Number of species:     53 

Canada Goose     28 
American Black Duck     2 
Mallard     418 
Lesser Scaup     1 
King Eider     1 (immature male) 
Surf Scoter     8 
Ruddy Duck     3 
Double-crested Cormorant     1558 
Great Blue Heron     17 
Great Egret     2 
Snowy Egret     38 
Tricolored Heron     4 
Cattle Egret     14 
Osprey     12 
Bald Eagle     1 
Black-bellied Plover     1 
Semipalmated Plover     38 
Killdeer     21 
Black-necked Stilt     20 
American Avocet     27 
Spotted Sandpiper     18 
Greater Yellowlegs     2 
Willet (Eastern)     7 
Willet (Western)     16 
Lesser Yellowlegs     30 
Semipalmated Sandpiper     241 
Western Sandpiper     203 
Least Sandpiper     195 
Pectoral Sandpiper     4 
Stilt Sandpiper     2 
Short-billed Dowitcher     165 
Short-billed Dowitcher (Prairie)     8 
Wilson's Phalarope     1 
Laughing Gull     32 
Ring-billed Gull     14 
Herring Gull (American)     335 
Great Black-backed Gull     411 
Least Tern     215 
Caspian Tern     8 
Black Tern     1 
Common Tern     354 
Forster's Tern     1 
Eastern Kingbird     1 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     1 
Purple Martin     12 
Tree Swallow     16 
Bank Swallow     31 
Barn Swallow     32 
European Starling     15 
Seaside Sparrow     1 
Red-winged Blackbird     86 
Common Grackle (Purple)     2 
American Goldfinch     1 

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