Date:         Mon, 19 May 2003 14:46:10 -0400
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From:         JAMES FELLEY <FelleyJ@OIT.SI.EDU>
Subject:      Tidal Basing birds
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Touring the Tidal Basin today at lunch, I found the following:
   (2) Great Blue Herons
   (1) Black-crowned Night Heron
   a few Ring-billed Gulls
   (1) Double-crested Cormorant
   Lots of Starlings feeding babies in the ancient trunks of the cherry
trees
   (3) Osprey, one harassed by a crow
   (several) American Crows
   (1) Red-eyed Vireo
   Blackpolls (many)
   Yellow Warblers (several)
   Yellow-rumped Warblers (several, all silent females)
   (1) Black-and-white Warbler
   (1) Common Yellowthroat
   (2) Scarlet Tanagers
   (1) Baltimore Oriole
   (3) Orchard Orioles, singing lustily
   (2) Eastern Kingbirds
   (1) Eastern Phoebe
  (several) Song Sparrows

Jim

Jim Felley
Smithsonian Institution
felleyj@si.edu

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