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Poplar Island--8/15/2011--Hudsonian Godwit, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

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Ronald Gutberlet

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Ronald Gutberlet

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Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:24:39 -0400

Hi Everyone,

The Tri-County Bird Club had a very enjoyable trip to Poplar Island yesterday (15 Aug 2011).  Thanks very much to Carol Broderick for organizing the trip!  I've already reported the highlights (see former message below), but here I include the full list.  If anyone would like me to share the eBird list, please send me your username or email address.  Also, if anyone notes any corrections for this list or the one from last Friday, please let me know.  Thanks!

Ron Gutberlet
Salisbury, MD



Poplar Island, Talbot, US-MD
Aug 15, 2011 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Tri-County Bird Club trip to Poplar Island organized by Carol Broderick.  Water levels much higher than last Friday owing to recent rains.  Good trip!  Birds seen by others but not me: 2 Western Sandpipers, 1 Seaside Sparrow.
39 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  120
Mute Swan  4
American Black Duck  15
Mallard  240     expected number here
Ruddy Duck  2
Double-crested Cormorant  1000     conservative estimate; expected number here
Great Blue Heron  13
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  28
Cattle Egret  20
white egret sp.  6
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1     juvenile bird with mostly dark bill; long legs and neck; photos by Mike Burchett and Ron Gutberlet

Osprey  21
Bald Eagle  3
Virginia Rail  1
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  9
Killdeer  10
Black-necked Stilt  13
American Avocet  46     reasonable number here; exact count
Spotted Sandpiper  6
Lesser Yellowlegs  7

Hudsonian Godwit  1     continuing bird presumably; photos by Mike Burchett and Ron Gutberlet; saw the bird in flight today and saw the black wing linings and the bold black tail contrasting with white uppertail coverts; bird was in wetland behind the building we use for a restroom stop

Sanderling  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  295
Least Sandpiper  9
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Laughing Gull  79
Ring-billed Gull  14
Herring Gull  150
Great Black-backed Gull  500     conservative estimate; expected number here
Least Tern  12
Common Tern  200     large flock in cell 6; expected number here
Fish Crow  2
Horned Lark  2
Barn Swallow  7
Northern Mockingbird  3
Red-winged Blackbird  115
Brown-headed Cowbird  150     large cowbird flock continues by cell 6; 150 is a conservative estimate

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



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From: Maryland Birds & Birding [] On Behalf Of Ronald Gutberlet []
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:45 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Poplar Is. info from yesterday's trip?

Hello Gail and Barry,

Thanks for the note.  I will be entering yesterday's Poplar list into eBird shortly and will forward the list to MDOsprey.

Shorebird numbers were still fairly low, but we had some day-makers:

Hudsonian Godwit--presumably the same bird found by Jeff Culler last Friday, but yesterday it was in the wetland behind the building that we use for the restroom stop; great views, as it wandered among a bunch of Mallards, but it did eventually fly to an area out of sight (photos)

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron--a juvenile that flew into the bushes with all the Snowy Egrets and Cattle Egrets; perched in plain view for a few minutes, allowing good photos.  An ad Black-crowned Night-Heron was here as well.  This spot is worth a little time, as neither night-heron was evident during the first few scans and counts.

Virginia Rail--in the marsh near the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron location; a big crowd pleaser owing to the close views (after a little iPod use)

Nice flock of American Avocets continues.  No Black Terns.  Water levels are high after the recent rains.

On the way back toward Easton, some of us stopped at the Claiborne boat ramp, where we had a Brown Pelican with many gulls and terns, including Royal.

Thanks to Carol Broderick for organizing a great trip!

Hope that helps.  Good luck tomorrow!

Ron Gutberlet
Salisbury, MD




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From: Maryland Birds & Birding [] On Behalf Of  []
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 6:44 AM
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Poplar Is. info from yesterday's trip?

Hi--

As I recall there was a birding trip out to Poplar Island yesterday (August
15) -- were there any interesting highlights? I ask because we have a trip
there tomorrow and it would be useful to know what was seen (and
where).

Thanks,
Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD

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