Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from September 28, 2011
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
2011, Fauna Monitoring Report for the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration
Project at Poplar Island.
Highlights focus on high numbers, i.e., over 5000 surface feeding
ducks, 1700 cormorants, and 2400 Great Black-backed Gulls. Other notables
include Lesser Scaup, Kestrel, Greater Yellowlegs (11- most ever), Pectoral
Sandpiper, Northern Flicker, Barn Swallow, and Savannah Sparrow.
Weather: Heavy overcast am, Partly Sunny pm
Temp: degrees F 72-82
SPECIES Number of birds
Double-Crested Cormorant (1760)
Great Blue Heron (24)
Great Egret (6)
Snowy Egret (25)
Cattle Egret (5)
Canada Goose (32)
American Wigeon (25)
American Black Duck (37)
Mallard (2071)
Northern Shoveler (1306)
Northern Pintail (68)
Green-winged Teal (1795)
Lesser Scaup (1)
Osprey (4)
Bald Eagle (6)
American Kestrel (1)
Peregrine Falcon (1)
Black-bellied Plover (20)
Semipalmated Plover (1)
Killdeer (3)
American Avocet (15)
Greater Yellowlegs (11)
Lesser Yellowlegs (132)
Sanderling (152)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (64)
Least Sandpiper (16)
White-rumped Sandpiper (9)
Pectoral Sandpiper (4)
Laughing Gull (18)
Ring-billed Gull (26)
Herring Gull (183)
Great Black-backed Gull (2401)
Caspian Tern (3)
Royal Tern (2)
Forster's Tern (6)
Northern Flicker (1)
Horned Lark (22)
Tree Swallow (127)
Barn Swallow (4)
European Starling (81)
Common Yellowthroat (1)
Song Sparrow (3)
Red-winged Blackbird (208)
Brown-headed Cowbird (60)
American Goldfinch (2)
Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601
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