Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:14:49 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings, May 10 Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org Comments: cc: Susan Rudy , Brent Steury , mary_paul@usgs.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed All: Linda Friedland and I birded Kenilworth Park (KP) and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (KAG) from approximately 7:30 a.m. to about 11:30 a.m. this morning, May 10. From 9:30 a.m. on we were in the company of Mary Paul of USGS, who was conducting her weekly bird survey (comparison of the bird life of KAG marsh and that of Kingman Lake, a more recently restored wetland a few miles away). Highlights of sightings follow: 1 LEAST FLYCATCHER* (in trees along Anacostia in KP) 1 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER* (a beautiful male in a tree in KP) 3 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS in KAG 2 MAGNOLIA WARBLERS* (in KAG, along the River Trail) 2 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (1 heard in KP in the stream area; one heard in KAG) 20-30 BOBOLINKS* (in the "no-mow" area of KP, at about 7:40 a.m. but gone thereafter) 1 BLUE GROSBEAK (singing male in KP) 1 or 2 WARBLING VIREOS* (at the end of the Riverside Trail in KAG) 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO (heard calling - KAG) * means first record of species for the year for one or both of us. We also had YELLOW WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and SCARLET TANAGER in KP, and lots of Orioles of both species. We heard "pumping", but did not see, an AMERICAN BITTERN in KAG. Might be the same individual I and others saw there about a week ago. Mike Bowen Bethesda MD 20817 D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================