Some notes on what you can see as a tourist down in DC this week. Just this week, a big fly-in of Worm-eating Warblers, Brown Thrashers, White-eyed Vireos and Yellow-rumped Warblers. The thrashers, vireos and Worm-eating Warblers are most in evidence at the DC Veteran's Monument near the Lincoln Memorial. This week has been declared Yellow-rumped Warbler week on the Mall, because they seem to be everywhere. Today at lunch (early!), a large flock of Chimney Swifts was flying over the Reflecting Pool, and there was a male Blue-winged Teal at the Lincoln Monument end of the Pool. Also seen, Caspian Terns over the Tidal Basin and Rough-winged Swallows nesting along the seawall at the Tidal basin. What is not being seen so much--most of the Ring-billed Gulls have left, despite the efforts of tourists with Cheetos to keep them here. Some young ones remain. Double-crested Cormorants are far fewer than last week. I haven't seen any accipiters or Red-tailed Hawks in weeks (perhaps the nesting crows have driven them off). Finally, the alewives finished spawning, and the gizzard shad seemed to have completed their die-off. Jim Jim Felley (irmss668@sivm.si.edu) Smithsonian Institution Washington DC