Northwest Branch today 10/9/98
GAIL@UMDD.UMD.EDU
Fri, 9 Oct 98 16:44:47 EDT
Decided to try a slog into Northwest Branch Park again today, to see what was
still around. We wore wellies and left the dogs at home. We assumed, rather
incorrectly, that the rain and overcast would have kept most of the migrants
on the deck. However, there had been a changeover since Wednesday -- most
of the Golden-Crowned Kinglets, Black-throated Blue Warblers and most of the
remaining warblers had vanished, but there were many more sparrows and
some newly arrived Winter Wrens. We did relocate one of Wednesday's "goodies"
in about the same spot -- the adult female Connecticut Warbler, which again
gave us only a short time of enjoyment before mysteriously vanishing into the
undergrowth.
Counts: Black-throated Blue (~12, mostly female), Magnolia (2), "Myrtle" (8),
Common Yellowthroat (~8), Connecticut Warbler (1), Winter Wren (6), Brown
Throasher (1), White-throated Sparrow (50), Swamp Sparrow (2), Golden-crowned
Kinglet (6), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (3), Wood Duck (30), Barred Owl (1),
Great Blue Heron (1).
Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
gail@umdd.umd.edu