Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:11:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Felley Subject: Lincoln Monument birds, 11/27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There has not been much to report recently, but today at lunch I found a classic feeding assemblage at the north end of the Tidal Basin, adjacent to the FDR Memorial. It included more than a dozen Carolina Chickadees and Tufted Titmice, a pair of Downy Woodpeckers, a White- breasted Nuthatch, one or two Golden-crowned Kinglets, and -> a Pine Warbler <- !! That kept me occupied for more than few moments. Then off to Constitution Gardens, where there were only a few Carolina Chickadees and in the drained pond, several Ring-billed Gulls and a Great Blue Heron. As I walked back past the Ellipse, an adult Cooper's Hawk flapped in from the direction of the Washington Monument and perched in a cypress by the Ellipse. After only a few moments, another Cooper's Hawk, an immature, flushed the adult from the tree and chased it off! Comparison of sizes indicated that the adult was a male, the immature a female. The wise male decamped, and the immature female headed back towards the DC Veteran's Memorial, where she apparently had been hunting. So come on down to the Mall if you want to see our flocks of Cooper's Hawks! Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution irmss668@sivm.si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================