Today we had a great trip to Poplar Island, organized by Kevin Graff. Ron
Gutberlet was kept quite busy as our official counter.
There were so many highlights and very good counts that I recommend that you
look at the entire list below. A few of the special birds included
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, COMMON GALLINULE, HUDSONIAN
GODWIT (8), and MARBLED GODWIT.
Before the trip afew of us saw a Red-headed Woodpecker at Black Walnut
Point. The hen Red-breasted Merganser, that has been around the Knapps
Drawbridge all summer, was seen on a lawn acorss from the boat dock at
Chicken Point Rd.
Poplar Island, Talbot, US-MD
Oct 7, 2011 9:20 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
63 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 20
Gadwall 2
American Wigeon 5
American Black Duck 60
Mallard 1400
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 225
Northern Pintail 300
Green-winged Teal (American) 250
Lesser Scaup 4
Ruddy Duck 90
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Double-crested Cormorant 50
Great Blue Heron 20
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 15
Black-crowned Night-Heron 11 Seen well. Paler lower mandible, large
spots on back. A few near adult birds with dark backs.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Long legs, all dark bill, small spots on
back.
Osprey 4
Bald Eagle 3
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 7
Broad-winged Hawk 1 Great spot by Maren Gimpel aganist a blue sky.
Clearly saw the dark trailing edge of the wing, pale secondaries, and no
dark on the leading edge of the wing.
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Common Gallinule 1 Seen briefly in flight. No blue on the dorsal side
of wings and the legs did not flash a bright yellow.
Black-bellied Plover 19
American Golden-Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 10
Black-necked Stilt 1 One lingering. seen well by the entire group.
American Avocet 9 Seen in flight. Black wings with white scapulars.
Pale orange heads and necks seen on some.
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 37
Hudsonian Godwit 8 Black tip to tail with white above, narrow white
wing stripe, black underlining of wing. Studied well. High count by Maren.
Marbled Godwit 1 Large cinnamon colored godwit with a uniformly colored
bill. Seen in the same field of view with the smaller HUGO.
Ruddy Turnstone 1 I believe it was Dan who spotted it with only its
head and breast visible.
Sanderling 91
Semipalmated Sandpiper 46
Least Sandpiper 8
White-rumped Sandpiper 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 13
Dunlin 6
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Too far to id. Found by Bob
Ringler.
Laughing Gull 4
Ring-billed Gull 7
Herring Gull (American) 16
Great Black-backed Gull 68
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 1
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Horned Lark 6
Tree Swallow 38
Barn Swallow 2 Spotted by Bob Ringler and scoped while perched.
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 5
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 475
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--
Joe Hanfman
Columbia, MD
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