Hi all,

Here are the results from yesterday's trip to Polar Island, many thanks to
Joe Hanfman for keeping the tally! Conditions out there looked good but the
number of birds was rather low. Diversity was good, however. Folks going
early to Blackwalnut Point saw a few warblers (Redstart, Pine,
Yellow-throated, B&W, Yellowthroat) as well as B-H Nuthatch.

Location:     Poplar Island, Talbot Co.
Observation date:     8/17/10
Observers: 19
Number of species:     47

Canada Goose     75
American Black Duck     18
Mallard     260
Blue-winged Teal     5
Northern Shoveler     14
Green-winged Teal (American)     2 (at least)
Surf Scoter     4
Double-crested Cormorant     820
Great Blue Heron     17
Great Egret     3
Snowy Egret     33
Tricolored Heron     3
Cattle Egret     10
Glossy Ibis     1
Osprey     36
Bald Eagle     4
Cooper's Hawk     1
Black-bellied Plover     8
Semipalmated Plover     58
Killdeer     14
Black-necked Stilt     15
AMERICAN AVOCET     11
Spotted Sandpiper     10
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Willet (Western)     14
Lesser Yellowlegs     15
Ruddy Turnstone     2
Sanderling     30
Semipalmated Sandpiper     140
Western Sandpiper     26
Least Sandpiper     120
Dunlin     1
Laughing Gull     60
Ring-billed Gull     12
Herring Gull     75
Great Black-backed Gull     250
Caspian Tern     40
BLACK TERN    2
Common Tern     350
Forster's Tern     1
Royal Tern     2
Fish Crow     2
Purple Martin     1
Bank Swallow     10
Barn Swallow     36
Red-winged Blackbird     36
Brown-headed Cowbird     40

Butterflies were abundant, species recorded included: Checkered White
(common), Cabbage White (abundant), Little Yellow (common), Sleepy Orange
(common), Orange Sulphur (abundant), Clouded Sulphur (1-2) Cloudless Sulphur
(a few), Northern Buckeye (common), Red Admiral, Black Swallowtail, Monarch,
Gray Hairstreak, Cloudywing sp.

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesvile, MD