LBJ Memorial Grove flock

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A nasty cold kept me from joining the trip Steve Pretl reported on
yesterday. However, this morning, as the rain cleared--and my cold improved
to "birding-friendly" level--I hopped in the car and trekked down to the
Grove.

As soon as I crossed the wooden bridge from the LBJ Memorial Grove parking
lot to the grove, I heard golden-crowned kinglets and Carolina chickadees.
Soon, I was following a good-sized flock of around 14 small passerines as
they skipped from one white pine to the next. 

The flock consisted of the following:

about 5 Carolina chickadees
5 golden-crowned kinglets (some came very close)
3 pine warblers, including the grayish individual reported previously
1 orange-crowned warbler, foraging about 12-15 feet up in the pine needles.
Saw it twice. (Seemed like the same bird.)

Also, 2 winter wrens bopping from the base of the pine trunks to ornamental
underbrush, not far from two Carolina wrens.

Down closer to the marina: one adult black-crowned night-heron and two
great blue herons, two great black-backed gulls, three herring gulls, and a
mess-o'-ring-billeds.

Now if I could only steal away to see the Patuxent gull fest!

Howard Youth
hmyouth@erols.com
Rockville, MD

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