Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:31:38 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek today (5/9) Hi all -- It was actually *raining hard* when we reached Rock Creek Park DC this morning. One might have thought this would have resulted in a "fall-out" of migrants (it often does) but the birding continued to be pretty slow. With perserverance we tallied okay variety but numbers still depressed, no flycatchers save Acadian, and so forth. Also since the trees are well out in leaf, the birds are a ****** to see and most are "heard only" which is also disappointing. Warblers: Yellow-rumped (ca. 50) Black-and-White (6), Black-throated Blue (10), Black-throated Green (1), Blackpoll (4), Ovenbird (7), Yellowthroat (2), Redstart (2), Magnolia (1), Canada (2, would have been nice if we'd have seen them!), Parula (3). Vireos: Red-eyed (12), Yellow-throated (3, which includes nesting pair at ridge). Others: Wood thrush (8), Veery (1), Baltimore Oriole (1), Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2), Eastern Kingbird (1), Acadian Flycatcher (2), Scarlet Tanager (8), Indigo Bunting (4). Also, the presence of 100s (could have been a thousand, who knows?) Cedar Waxwings eating caterpilars in the trees, flying over north and just loafing about made us decide that we'd have been better off looking for a Bohemian than trying to dig out the pathetic number of warblers that are about! Cheers, Gail Mackiernan 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================