Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:48:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jim Felley Subject: Mall birds, 3/12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The area of the Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Monument was quite birdy around lunchtime. Here is what I saw: Constitution Gardens: (1) Cooper's Hawk immature, eating a black bird (grackle?) Many American Robins (2) Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (in adjacent trees!) Canada Geese and roosting Ring-billed Gulls DC Veteran's Memorial: Flocks of Dark-eyed Juncos Several Song Sparrows (1) Carolina Wren More robins (3) Brown Creepers (in the SAME tree!) (2) Downy Woodpeckers a few Golden-crowned Kinglets Tidal Basin: 4-5 Horned Grebes 5-10 Red-necked Grebes 2 Buffleheads a dozen Lesser Scaup a dozen Red-breasted Mergansers 6-10 Double-crested Cormorants about a hundred gulls, Ring-billed, Herring, Greater Black-backed (1) Red-tailed Hawk (adult) More geese, some Mallards Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution irmss668@sivm.si.edu =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================