[MDOsprey] Olive-sided Flycatcher etc. in DC

GAIL@UMDD.UMD.EDU
Thu, 19 Aug 99 11:50:23 EDT


There was an execellent migration flight at Rock Creek Park, DC, this
morning. Lots of small flocks of birds flying in, over, and through the
trees, chasing eachother, etc. A few settled down long enough to be
actually seen and identified! We were showing a Brit friend around so he
was duly impressed.

Best bird was an unbelievably cooperative Olive-Sided Flycatcher which flew
into a rather low tree and sat for long minutes making sorties after insects,
preening and giving looks at all its field marks to the five happy birders
present! We even got good views of the white patch under the wing with the
wing lifted.

Other migrants included: Yellow-billed Cuckoo (3); Great Crested FC (2);
Eastern Phoebe (3); Eastern Wood-pewee (4); Acadian Flycatcher (1); Empid
sp. (1); Baltimore Oriole (2); Scarlet Tanager (2); Red-eyed Vireo (25);
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (30); 10 spp. of warbler (and there were a lot
unidentified, zipping over): Black-and-White (5); Blackburnian (2); Chestnut-
sided (3); Magnolia (1); Ovenbird (1); Blue-winged (2); Redstart (5); Yellow
(1); Tennessee (1); Wormeating (2); Wood Thrush (1); Ruby-throated Hummingbird
(8).

Gail Mackiernan