03/09/12 - 935am-1pm
Poplar Island, Tilghman, Talbot Co., MD

WEATHER: Overcast/MC, 46-50 degrees, NNW 12 mph- NNW 9 mph
OBSERVERS: 13

Canada Goose - 4
Tundra Swan - 4
Gadwall - 4
American Wigeon - 2
American Black Duck - 85
Mallard - 650
Northern Shoveler - 205
Northern Pintail - 36
Green-winged Teal - 18
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Greater Scaup - 2
Lesser Scaup - 41
Surf Scoter - 80
Black Scoter - 1 (hen, only seen by at least two observers)
Long-tailed Duck - 470
Bufflehead - 24
Ruddy Duck - 3
Red-throated Loon - 2
Common Loon - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Horned Grebe - 6
Northern Gannet - 3+ (2 Poplar Is, Talbot; 3 Bloody Bar Light, QA Co, & 3
Herring Bay, AA Co)
Double-crested Cormorant - 12 (Bloody Bar Lighthouse, Queen Annes County)
Great Cormorant - 6 (Bloody Bar Lighthouse, Queen Annes County)
Great Blue Heron - 65
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 1
Bald Eagle - 7
Northern Harrier - 3
American Coot - 2
Killdeer - 10
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Least Sandpiper - 1
Dunlin - 172
Wilson's Snipe - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 32
Herring Gull - 480
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1
Great Black-backed Gull - 50
Tree Swallow - 5
European Starling - 20
Savannah Sparrow - 4
Song Sparrow - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 95
Common Grackle - 1
SPECIES: 35


*Next boat trips: July 27, Aug 10, Oct 12, possible expanding to April &
Sept if nothing else on Fridays


     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD
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 4
 Savannah Sparrow (Eastern)
  5
 Song Sparrow
  95
 Red-winged Blackbird
  1
 Common Grackle (Purple)

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