Date:         Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:56:42 -0400
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From:         Gail Mackiernan <gail@MDSG.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      Rock Creek today (10/6)
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Hi all --

A nice turn-out of birders AND birds at Rock Creek Park, D.C., this morning.
Highlights included yet another PHILADELPHIA VIREO at the ridge and a
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH in the Maintenance Yard, as well as two Cape May (one
bright, one dull) and two Tennessee Warblers. Twelve warbler species and
three vireo species were seen, plus first sightings (for us) of some winter
visitors. Diversity was good but numbers only so-so.

Warblers:  Black-throated Green (6), B-T Blue (2), Black-and-White (2),
Blackpoll (1), Cape May (2), Magnolia (3), Parula (1), Redstart (1),
Tennessee (2), Yellowthroat (6), Yellow-rump (2) plus Jim Lemert had a Palm
in the Maintenance Yard.

Vireos: Blue-headed (3), Philadelphia (1), Red-eyed (10).

Other migrants: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (15), Golden-crowned Kinglet (1),
Scarlet Tanager (8), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2), Wood Thrush (2), Swainson's
Thrush (4), Gray-cheeked Thrush (1), Brown Thrasher (6), Gray Catbird (8),
Eastern Phoebe (6), Eastern Wood-Pewee (1), House Wren (6), Northern Flicker
(20).

Incoming winter birds: Winter Wren (1), White-throated Sparrow (12), Junco
(1), Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (4).

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD

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