This morning (9/23) at Rock Creek Park�.
A good morning for warblers including one that was a puzzle to all. It had the plain face, eye-ring and head of a chestnut-sided warbler, the body with streaking of a magnolia warbler but without the characteristic black in the tip of the tail, and the tail splayed with white feathers like a hooded warbler. Talk about a confusing fall warbler!
Highlights: CAPE MAY WARBLER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WHITE-EYED VIREO
Black-and-white Warbler 9
Common Yellowthroat 6
American Redstart 6
CAPE MAY WARBLER 5 (1@ equitation, 2 @ yard)
Northern Parula 8
Magnolia Warbler 6
Bay-breasted Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler 8
Blackpoll Warbler 4
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Warbler sp.
Red-shouldered Hawk
Chimney Swift 40+
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 10
Eastern Phoebe
Empid. sp.
WHITE-EYED VIREO 3
PHILADELPHIA VIREO 5 (4@ yard and 1@ equitation)
Red-eyed Vireo 15
Blue Jay 13+
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Veery
Gray Catbird 3
Brown Thrasher 2
Eastern Towhee
Scarlet Tanager 15 all sites
House Wren
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4
Common Grackle 6
Northern Cardinal 4
American Goldfinch 2
Observers: Bill Butler, Marjorie Rachlin, Randy Weaver, Sandy Farkas, Susan Heskew, Gary Jones, Kathryn Kratzer, Eric Kravitz, John Williamson, Jim Lemert, Brad Beukema, Tucker Scully, Lee Kimball, Judith Gray, Nick Constantinople, Cathy Wiss, Amy Donovan, Tom O'Toole, Callan Swensen,++
Have Fun Birding!
Wallace Kornack
Washington DC
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