Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 12:30:31 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek Park DC today Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- A better day numbers-wise at Rock Creek Park, DC, as might be expected, but no "star" bird -- or at least, we didn't hear about any. Our tally follows: Blackburnian (5), Chestnut-sided (3), Black-throated Green (1), Canada (2), Magnolia (6), Bay-breasted (2), Blackpoll (1), Redstart (6), Ovenbird (1), Yellowthroat (4). Reported by others: Black-throated Blue, Palm (one, seen in Dog Run), Worm-eating. Other migrants: Baltimore Oriole (12), Red-eyed Vireo (15), Yellow-throated Vireo (1 singing!), Scarlet Tanager (1), Brown Thrasher (2), Veery (2), House Wren (15), Wod-pewee (3), Acadian Flycatcher (1), Great Crested Flycatcher (2), Ruby-throated Hummingbird (5). Reported by others: Gray-cheeked Thrush (1). Gail Mackiernan Silver Spring, MD gail@mdsg.umd.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================