Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:27:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Denise Ryan Subject: DC birds this weekend MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" First official visit to my Atlas Block in DC Saturday, March 30 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 31, 6:00 - 9:00 a.m. Rock Creek Park Nature Center Male Pileated Woodpecker calling and drumming behind the Nature Center Blue Heron At feeder behind center White Breasted Nuthatches Carolina Chickadees Tufted Titmouse Downy Woodpecker Rock Creek Park Maint. Yard Brown Thrasher - singing Eastern Towhee White Throated Sparrows Yellow Bellied Sapsucker 2 Northern Flickers - yellow shafted Robins American Crow Cardinals Mourning Doves Cowbirds Downy Woodpeckers White Breasted Nuthatches 3 Carolina Wren Red Bellied Woodpecker Carolina Chickadees Tufted Titmouse Juncos 1 well picked-over deer carcass Gray Catbird calling (first one of the year) National Zoo Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Carolina Wren Pileated Woodpecker calling and drumming - not seen 6 Pairs of Wood Ducks (in and out of nesting boxes along Rock Creek- yippee!) Black Crowned Night Herons - building nests and preening Grackles - gathering nest materials Robins Cardinals 6 White Tail Deer crossing Rock Creek Coopers Hawk Northern Mocking Bird House Sparrow Cowbirds Downy Woodpeckers White Throated Sparrows Carolina Chickadees Denise Ryan Washington, DC denise_ryan@lcv.org ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================