Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:27:16 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: Yellow-crowned night-heron in DC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed There was a single YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON on the grass just across from the concession building at Fletcher's Boathouse, DC, this morning, June 29, at 5:45 a.m. It flew away upriver after it we inspected each other for a few minutes. I did not see it again, or another one, even though I walked all the way up to Chain Bridge and looked into the river upstream of the bridge, also. Other birds seen were pretty much those reported by Gail MacKiernan and Barry Cooper, and was great to know that PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and PARULA WARBLERS are all still there. It was extremely hot even at 7 a.m. with not a breath of wind; it was in anticipation of the heat that I arrived so early. These Yellow-crowned Night-herons are probably breeding nearby - I suspect in the area above Chain Bridge, where Ed Bruce, a local birder, has told me that he's seen them on several occasions. They may go to fish every morning near the dock at Fletcher's before they get spooked by the fishermen, joggers, etc. Certainly they should be looked for above Chain Bridge and in the tumbling stream that cascades down from the canal at Fletcher's, near where the Capital Crescent Trail and Towpath start to diverge, where BLACK-CROWNS are regular - sometimes up to 10 of them. Thanks to John Hubbell for reporting the YCNH's. I then visited Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, DC, briefly. A MARSH WREN was singing once again in reeds just to the left at the end of the observation platform and a WILLOW FLYCATCHER was calling from about 100 yds. out in the marsh from a point on the boardwalk where we heard both WILLOW and ALDER calling back in May. An OSPREY called overhead. I called it a day at 8 a.m.! Mike Bowen Bethesda MD and Dewey Beach DE 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================