I decided to try for Jon's Connecticut Warblers at Southwest Area Park even though it was well past morning. After spending an hour finding almost no birds of any kind in the north end of the park behind the playground I went to the airstrip area and, with a great assist from one of my sons, found a Connecticut. This was an adult, probably male, bird so I don't know if it was one of the ones Jon found.
It had a with gray hood and white eye ring. My son found it first while I was still working the locust stand where Jon had two yesterday. Little David had moved further along the trail and called to me upon finding a "yellow and green bird on the ground." By the time I got on it it was moving. It walked along the ground and then flew out of the back of the shrub into or through the bamboo. Tried pishing to no avail and spent another half an hour hoping it would return for a longer look. The shrub appeared to be an elderberry tree with berries 60% surrounded by bamboo on the left side of the trail that starts at the bend just before the southeast part of the airfield.
David Gersten
Silver Spring, MD
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