[MDOsprey] Rock Creek today (8/25)

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Hi all --

First bird for the day was a Common Nighthawk just before we reached Chevy
Chase Circle, coming down from Silver Spring (us, not the Nighthawk).

At first it looked like it was going to be a good morning, sun hitting the
trees at the ridge (picnic areas 17/18 in DC), and we tallied quite a few
early birds, but then the clouds gathered, the air got heavy and sultry and
things pretty much shut down by 9 am. Species observed: Yellow-billed Cuckoo
(1); Easter Wood-pewee (5); Eastern Phoebe (1); Warblers: Black-and-white (5);
Canada (1); Chestnut-sided (5); American Redstart (9); Magnolia (8); Common
Yellowthroat (1); Wormeating (1); Blue-winged (1). No Orioles, Tanagers and
a real decline in Flycatchers from two days ago.

Gail Mackiernan

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