Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:19:09 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: Tidal Basin birds, 4/21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline More migrants are showing up in DC, but not at any breakneck pace: Here is what I saw during a lunch-hour walk today: Everywhere: Starlings American Robins Common Grackles North end of Hains Point golf course: A small flock of Barn Swallows (1) Tree Swallow (1) Osprey Along the Potomac to the Tidal Basin (1) Black-crowned Night Heron (1) Osprey on the nest at the train bridge Several Northern Rough-winged Swallows Several Double-crested Cormorants (1) Lesser Scaup Tidal Basin: A few Northern Rough-winged Swallows A few Double-crested Cormorants, A few Ring-billed Gulls A Greater-Black-backed Gull DC Veteran'e Memorial Several Yellow-rumped Warblers Several American Goldfinches (2) Ruby-crowned Kinglets Several White-throated Sparrows Constitution Gardens A flock of Chipping Sparrows Several Yellow-rumped Warblers (1) Palm Warbler (yellow sbsp.) Tufted Titmice (1) Dark-eyed Junco Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felleyj@si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================