Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:52:44 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek Park DC today Hi all -- Barry and I made our first of what we expect will be many visits to Rock Creek Park, DC, this morning, birding the picnic area 17/18 and vicinity, the maintanance yard, and vicinity of nature center and stable. Not a lot moving but there definitely had been some birds flying last night. In all, from about 7 to 9:30 am, we saw: ca. 40 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2 Palm Warblers, 2 Black-and-White Warblers, ca. 20 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 12 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 1 White-eyed Vireo, 3 Hermit Thrushes, 2 Brown Thrashers, 2 Winter Wrens, ca. 15 Towhees, ca. 30 White-throated Sparrows, 3 Chipping Sparrows, 1 Fox Sparrow, 1 Phoebe, ca. 15 Flickers, 1 Y-B Sapsucker, plus two Common Loons in summer plumage overhead. (Also a good number of resident birds such as Chickadees, Titmice, etc. etc.) Cheers, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================