Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from September 23,2010

 

       This report is submitted on behalf of Jan Reese of Talbot County, who
continues to periodically survey the flora and fauna of the Paul Sarbanes
Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.

               The summary of bird observations that follows was taken by
permission from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and MD Port
Administration, September 2010, Fauna Monitoring Report for the Paul S.
Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island.

       Note the presence of Blue-winged Teal, American Golden Plover,
several raptors and two phalarope species, and also the relatively large
numbers of Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintails, Black-bellied Plovers and
Killdeer.  

             

    Weather: Mostly Cloudy early a.m., Mostly Clear thereafter   

    Temp: degrees F 70-85

    

SPECIES               Number of birds

Double-crested Cormorant     (2447)

Great Blue Heron             (31)

Great Egret                  (7)

Snowy Egret                  (33)

Tricolored Heron             (1)

Canada Goose                 (200)

American Black Duck          (42)

Mallard                      (232)

Blue-winged Teal             (2)

Northern Shoveler            (211)

Northern Pintail             (42)

Green-winged Teal            (280)

Ruddy Duck                   (2)

 

Osprey                       (4)

Bald Eagle                   (9)

Northern Harrier             (2)

Merlin                       (1)

American Kestrel             (2)

Cooper's Hawk                (1)

Black-bellied Plover         (46)

American Golden Plover       (4)

Semipalmated Plover          (28)

Killdeer                     (80)

American Avocet              (16)

Spotted Sandpiper            (1)

Ruddy Turnstone              (1)

 

Sanderling                   (260)

Least Sandpiper              (621)

Pectoral Sandpiper           (1)

Wilson's Phalarope           (1)

Red-necked Phalarope         (1)

Laughing Gull                (30)

Ring-billed Gull             (32)

Herring Gull                 (266)

Great Black-backed Gull      (331)

Caspian Tern                 (11)

Royal Tern                   (2)

Forster's Tern               (3)

 

European Starling            (154)

Common Yellowthroat          (2)

Red-winged Blackbird         (37)

Brown-headed Cowbird         (250)

 

Les Roslund

Talbot County

Easton MD 21601

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3136 - Release Date: 09/15/10
02:34:00