I was fortunate enough to join the Talbot bird club yesterday for a tour of 
Poplar Island. It was my first time out there so needless to say I was excited. 
The best bird of the morning was a Hudsonian Godwit, originally found by Jan 
Reese earlier in the morning. We were able to re-find the bird and everyone got 
great up close views. The number of shorebirds were amazing, we could of easily 
spent the entire morning in the northern most cell where most of the shorebirds 
were. Most of the numbers below are estimates as time didn't allow for exact 
counting and these were numbers I kept not necessarily representative of what 
the group saw.




Location:    Poplar Island
Observation date:    8/4/10
Notes:    Joined the Talbot bird club for a tour of the island lead by Jan 
Reese. 

Number of species:    46

American Black Duck    45
Mallard    195
Surf Scoter    4
Ruddy Duck    2
Double-crested Cormorant    X
Great Blue Heron    13
Snowy Egret    45
Tricolored Heron    4
Cattle Egret    11
Osprey    8
Bald Eagle    2
Black-bellied Plover    4
Semipalmated Plover    66
Killdeer    7
Black-necked Stilt    31
American Avocet    31
Spotted Sandpiper    17
Greater Yellowlegs    3
Willet (Eastern)    1
Willet (Western)    5
Lesser Yellowlegs    41
Hudsonian Godwit    1
Ruddy Turnstone    1
Sanderling    13
Semipalmated Sandpiper    2505
Western Sandpiper    305
Least Sandpiper    X
White-rumped Sandpiper    1
Stilt Sandpiper    24
Short-billed Dowitcher    75
Long-billed Dowitcher    1
Ring-billed Gull    11
Herring Gull    414
Great Black-backed Gull    382
Least Tern    15
Caspian Tern    11
Common Tern    104
Forster's Tern    1
Royal Tern    2
Eastern Kingbird    1
crow sp.    1
Tree Swallow    7
Bank Swallow    4
Barn Swallow    50
Yellow Warbler    1
Seaside Sparrow    3
Red-winged Blackbird    215

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Dan Small
Chestertown, md