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Poplar Island 8/24

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Nico Sarbanes

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Nico Sarbanes

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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:02:49 -0700

Hey everyone-

I accompanied my dad and granddad on a quick tour of Poplar Island earlier today.  This was my first trip to the island, and I will definitely be coming back for a birding tour  as soon as i can. Needless to say, today's tour group was not too birding-oriented, and I only managed to get off the bus once, at what I believe was cell 4A(?).  Anyway, in a few minutes of scanning, I was able to pick out one nice shorebird:

Location:     Poplar Island
Observation date:     8/24/10
Number of species:     35

Canada Goose     22
Mallard     10
Blue-winged Teal     15
Double-crested Cormorant     269
Great Blue Heron     12
Great Egret     2
Snowy Egret     23
Tricolored Heron     4
Cattle Egret     15
Osprey     35
Bald Eagle     8
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER     1 (photos) **I saw a large Plover from the bus, and
          forced my way off it to get a scope on this bird, which was relatively close to 
          the road, and allowed for good study and photo-ops**
Semipalmated Plover     35
Killdeer     10
Black-necked Stilt     3
American Avocet     17 
Lesser Yellowlegs     26
Ruddy Turnstone     2 
Sanderling     36
Semipalmated Sandpiper     30
Western Sandpiper     6
Least Sandpiper     45
Pectoral Sandpiper     1
Laughing Gull     100
Herring Gull     200
Great Black-backed Gull     45
Caspian Tern     3
Common Tern     8
Royal Tern     35
Fish Crow     2
Purple Martin     1
Bank Swallow     2
Barn Swallow     1
Northern Mockingbird     1
Red-winged Blackbird     300

After Poplar, I stopped by Black Walnut Point for 15 minutes to see if I could relocate an Olive-Sided Flycatcher reported by David Palmer on eBird.  I couldn't find the flycatcher, but a group of Brown-Headed Nuthatches were entertaining, and I encountered a small flock of Pine Warblers containing birds from the drabbest to the brightest extremes, allowing for some cool study and comparison.

Good birding,

Nico Sarbanes
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