Subject: Poplar Island Sightings from February 7, 2012

       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, February
2012, Fauna Monitoring Report for the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration
Project at Poplar Island.

	Deposition materials are currently being placed into three big cells
occupying nearly the entire southern half of the island. This slurry
continues to discourage most waterfowl, gulls and shorebirds. There are lots
of avian predators around to discourage small waterfowl and shorebirds.
Consequently, this latest census is rather bland.

	
    Weather: Hazy Clear am & pm	Temp: 39-53 degrees F 
  
SPECIES                     Number of birds

Common Loon					(5)
Horned Grebe					(4)
Pied-billed Grebe				(1)
Great Blue Heron              (65)
American Bitten				(3)
Black-crowned Night Heron		(3)
Canada Goose					(61)
Tundra Swan					(64)
American Black Duck           (131)
Mallard                       (214)
Northern Shoveler				(65)
Northern Pintail				(352)

Green-winged Teal				(93)
Greater Scaup				(4180)
Lesser Scaup					(269)
Long-tailed Duck				(700)
Bufflehead					(25)
Common Goldeneye				(2)
Ruddy Duck					(3)
Bald Eagle                    (9)
Northern Harrier				(4)
Peregrine Falcon				(1)
Virginia Rail				(2)
Killdeer						(30)

Dunlin						(50)
Ring-billed Gull				(20)
Herring Gull                  (794)
Great Black-backed Gull       (49)
Horned Lark					(3)
European Starling             (50)
Song Sparrow					(5)
Red-winged Blackbird          (108)


Les Roslund
Talbot County
Easton MD 21601

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