Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:51:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: DC sightings, April 11 Comments: cc: Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed It's been almost a month - back to 3/21 - since I last birded in DC, so a trip to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (KAG) and Anacostia Park (AP), both in NE DC, gave me a definite flavor of advancing spring: Selected sightings follow: At KAG 1 GREAT EGRET 2 OSPREY 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (probably local breeders) 6-10 TREE SWALLOW 2 N. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW 6-10 BARN SWALLOW (gathering mud and building nests under the railroad bridge) 1 CHIMNEY SWIFT 1 BROWN CREEPER 6 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER 2 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET 1 GRAY CATBIRD 6 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER 4 PALM WARBLER 1 FIELD SPARROW At AP 9 CASPIAN TERN on the gull loafing area across from moored ship '933' 20-30 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT The "wetlands" area of AP, which is down to two small wet areas, still had 2 COMMON SNIPE and 2 KILLDEER Good birding! 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 =========================================================================