Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:29:40 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings, January 5, 2002 Comments: cc: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed After taking three days off to thaw out after our very cold MCC/MOS field trip into DC on New Year's Day, I ventured back there again this morning, and the birds and weather were more cooperative. I have marked with an asterisk* those species that are new for me in DC in 2002. I know that many of them have already been reported by John Hubbell, Paul Pisano and maybe others. I'll let John (in his new capacity as "Fran's assistant for DC stuff") figure out which of them, if any, might actually be new for DC this year. I visited Kenilworth Park (KP), Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (KAG), Anacostia Park (AP), River Terrace Park (RTP), Washington Channel -- upper part just south of Independence Ave. and the train tracks (WC), and Georgetown Reservoir (GR). Hains Point was not open to vehicular traffic (construction? high tides?) so wasn't visited. PIED-BILLED GREBE 1 GR Great Blue Heron 3 KP, KAG BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON 19 WC Canada Goose hundreds at KP, AP Mallard 14 NORTHERN PINTAIL* 1 on river at KP, another 20 flying north along Anacostia CANVASBACK* 1 female on GR, with Ring-necked Ducks (wasn't found here on 1/1/02) RING-NECKED DUCK 60 GR HOODED MERGANSER 3 on river at KP RUDDY DUCK * 4 GR BALD EAGLE* 1 adult seen over Navy Yard from AP RED-SHOULDERED HAWK* 2 KP, KAG RED-TAILED HAWK* 1 imm. AP AMERICAN KESTREL* 1 male hunting in "wetlands" area, AP KILLDEER* 3 LAUGHING GULL* 1 by itself on the grass near the roller rink at AP Ring-billed Gull lots everywhere Herring Gull ditto Great Black-backed Gull ditto LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - 3 different adult winter birds: 1 on sand-bar in river at KP at 10:00 a.m; 1 just below Benning Rd. bridge at RTP at 11:30 a.m. and 1 on cross dike, very near gate, at GR at 12:30 p.m. Rock Dove usual collection at GR BELTED KINGFISHER 1 KP Red-bellied Woodpecker* 1 KAG Downy Woodpecker 2 KP Hairy Woodpecker* 1 KP Northern Flicker* 1 KP Blue Jay 1 KAG American Crow many in KP, KAG Fish Crow ditto Carolina Chickadee 4 KP Tufted Titmouse* 1 KP White-breasted Nuthatch 1 KAG Carolina Wren lots KP, KAG EASTERN BLUEBIRD* 6 KP, KAG GRAY CATBIRD* 2 KAG Northern Mockingbird 1 KAG European Starling 50 WC Yellow-rumped Warbler* 1 KAG COMMON YELLOWTHROAT* 1 KP Northern Cardinal 4 KP EASTERN TOWHEE* 1 KP FIELD SPARROW* 1 KAG SAVANNAH SPARROW* 6 KP FOX SPARROW* 1 KP Song Sparrow many KP, KAG SWAMP SPARROW* 10 KP, KAG White-throated Sparrow* many KP, KAG Dark-eyed Junco many KAG RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD* 4 females KAG House Finch 30+ KP American Goldfinch 4 KP House Sparrow 20 WC Mike Bowen Bethesda MD D.H. Michael Bowen 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 Tel.: (301) 530-5764 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= dhmbowen@yahoo.com =========================================================================