Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:55:55 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding Comments: RFC822 error: Incorrect or incomplete address field found and ignored. From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings, July 30 Comments: To: Voice of the Naturalist Comments: cc: Mary Paul , Paul Pisano , Rob Hilton Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Following sightings were made in the District of Columbia on 7/30/01, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 pm: Along the Anacostia River in Anacostia Park: 5 FORSTER'S TERNS In River Terrace Park, just south of Benning Rd.: 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS 3 FORSTER'S TERNS 3 LAUGHING GULLS In Kingman Lake, along the golf course north of Benning Rd.: 6 GREAT BLUE HERON 3 GREAT EGRET 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS 12 PECTORAL SANDPIPER (may be same birds seen from River Terrace Park) 8 LEAST SANDPIPER 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER 20+ KILLDEER 1 BELTED KINGFISHER 3 NORTHERN FLICKERS (in one tree) Another bird of interest was a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK flying over the intersection of DC 295 and the beginning of the Suitland Parkway. I visited the National Arboretum briefly, and walked the area with Dogwoods that abuts the Anacostia across from Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. This is the area from which people at KAG have been hearing the call of Bobwhites. I did not see or hear any quail but I did see a young Red Fox, which isn't good news for any quail that may be in the area. I just heard by phone from Rob Hilton that Paul Pisano saw a (western) Willet at Hains Point, DC, at around 5 p.m. this afternoon. Probably Paul will post this himself this evening. Mike Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 (Montgomery County) Tel.: (301)530-5764 dhmbowen@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================