Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:26:42 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Birds yesterday and today in DC Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- My email server was down yesterday so couldn't post -- we went to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and Park in the morning, and then Barry went down to Jones' Point, Founder's Park and Hunting Creek in the afternoon at low tide. KAG was quiet -- 3-4 Northern Waterthrushes, 4 Magnolia, 3 Redstart, 6-8 Yellowthroats and a Tennessee was about it for warblers, a couple of Red-eyed Vireos, 3 Indigo Buntings plus a good number of Catbirds and a few Brown Thrashers for migrants, plus Caspian tern, 6 Great Egrets and a few Killdeer and Greater Yellowlegs were about as well. From Founder's Park, Barry saw 2-3 Black terns and a possible Golden Plover out on the Hydrilla -- heat haze made positive ID of the latter difficult. There are tons of shorebirds still at Hunting Creek, no one seems to be posting them on the Virginia Birdline, unfortunately -- best being a White-rumped SP and about 40 (!!!) Stilt Sandpipers. Today we went to Rock Creek, hoping that the freshening weather might have brought something new in -- no luck, a brief flurry of warblers (BT Green, Blue, Redstart, Yellowthroat) on the ridge at 7:45 and then essentially nothing BUT we still managed to see a Gray-cheeked Thrush at the ridge (one was apparently seen there Sunday, maybe same bird) and a Least Flycatcher. The Maintenance Yard had zero birds! Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper Colesville, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================