Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:34:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jason Waanders Subject: Tidal basin/Mall birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry for the late posting--Friday afternoon Philip Kline and I took a = walk to the Tidal Basin along with a non-birder friend from work. =20 We saw two red-necked grebes, which looked great in close to full = alternate plumage and were quite cooperative, swimming only about = fifteen feet from the edge while crowds of tourists walked past. They = were toward the Jefferson Memorial end, but on the other side of the = small bridge.=20 Also zipping by close to us were 3-4 northern rough-winged swallows. On the mall we saw a yellow palm warbler, in some small trees between = Constitution Gardens and 15th St. Jason Waanders NW DC jwaanders@starpower.net =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 =========================================================================