Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:22:39 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek 9/20 Comments: To: Voice@capaccess.org Hi all -- As might be expected, a good morning flight at Rock Creek Park, DC, and s ome birds lingering for later morning enjoyment. 16 species of warbler were tallied (not all by us), as well as the first Winter Wrens, White-throate d Sparrows and Golden-crowned Kinglet. Warblers (numbers are ours except fo r birds in brackets, not seen by us): Magnolia (25), Black-throated Green ( 20), Black-throated Blue (10), Common Yellowthroat (15), Black-and-White (8), Redstart (8-9), Chestnut-sided (3), Blackburnian (3), Blackpoll (3), Bay- breasted (2), Wilson's (2), [Ovenbird (2)], Palm (1), [Blue-winged (1)], Nashville (2), Parula (3). Other migrants included: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (10), [Golden-crowned Kinglet (1)], Winter Wren (2), Scarlet Tanager (3), Balti more Oriole (1), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4), Brown Thrasher (12), White-throat ed Sparrow (4), Red-eyed Vireo (8), Warbling Vireo (1), White-eyed Vireo (1) , Swainson's Thrush (1), Catharus sp. (1) -- this was surprsing since befor e dawn we heard a number of thrushes flying over, as did Bill Dobbins in DC , including Gray-cheeked, but they must have kept on truckin' -- Phoebe (10 ), and many Blue Jays, Robins, Catbirds, Flickers and Swifts also on the mov e. Oh -- almost forgot, a Swamp Sparrow in the Maintenance Yard and a Boboli nk flyover at the ridge. There was also some raptor excitement -- a Merlin perched at picnic area 17/18 early, and several kettles of Broadwings totalling over 200 birds, some of which we observed rising out of the forest at about 9 am., as wel l as a couple of Sharpies terrorizing the flickers. Should be good tomorrow as well... Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper ======================================================================== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================== ==========================================================================