Date: 5/29/13 12:38 pm
From: Jason Berry <jgbrc...>
Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Olive-sided flycatcher - FT Dupont (alabama avenue entrance)
Great bird Dan! �By "east" do you mean the highest part of the park? �I have always thought of the park as north & south, and birded the "north" or "west" side off�Minnesota�Ave. �But you're right that the park is more of an east/west orientation.

Thanks again for the bird surveys you do for the DC DOE, and i hope you get today's birds in eBird!

Jason


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From: Daniel Rauch <danrauch11...>
To: MDBirds <mdbirding...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:32 PM
Subject: [MDBirding] Olive-sided flycatcher - FT Dupont (alabama avenue entrance)



Several good birds out today during surveys. Best was an olive-sided flycatcher at Ft DuPont.

10:08am� - park entrance off Alabama Avenue, SE. Between the bathhouse and meadow restoration project. There is a large snag in the middle, set back 30 yards into the woods.�It was sitting on top with a ruby-throated hummingbird. Never vocalized and went into canopy.�I did not stick around to see if it returned. Flycatcher profile.Larger than a peewee. Smaller than a kingbird. Sat up nicely. Dark wings, gray flanks, great view of white down the�middle of the breast.

This was a great area during migration. Everything from blue-headed vireos to blackburnians�to Wilson's warblers. There is a homeless guy who lives in the building. He has never given me any trouble, but just be aware that he is usually there.

Other good birds on the east side of Ft Dupont this morning were:

scarlet tanager - 2 males
northern parula - male
veery - 1
wood thrush - 3
Acadian flycatcher - 4
great-crested flycatcher - pair copulating
eastern wood-peewee�- 4
red-eyed vireo - 6
Eastern towhee - 1 female
ruby-throated hummingbird - 1



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