Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:20:10 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Rock Creek Park DC today, 4/25 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi -- No northerly wind today so a number of birders out at Rock Creek Park, DC, in the vicinity of the Nature Center and environs. Reasonable activity but still every thing seems so LATE compared to previous years (based on notes). After a lot of flogging about we tallied a nice list but numbers and diversity are still 'way down. Species seen include: Myrtle Warbler (~80), Ovenbird (2), Blue-winged Warbler (2), Black-and-White Warbler (2), Black-throated Green (1), Palm Warbler (8, all yellow), Parula (1), Worm-eating Warbler (1 heard at ridge, on territory? third time heard/seen in a week), Yellowthroat (1), White-eyed Vireo (1), Blue-headed Vireo (1), Yellow-throated Vireo (1), Red-eyed Vireo (3), Hermit Thrush (5), Wood Thrush (yea!) (5), Eastern Kingbird (1), B-G Gnatcatcher (15), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (12), Broadwing Hawk (1), Common Loon (3 overhead heading due north!). 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================