A walk around the Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Monument produced these
highlights:
Tidal Basin:
Several Double-crested Cormorants
a male Red-breasted Merganser
DC Veteran's Memorial: (sort of frustrating, the birds were being
very discreet!)
Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers
Yellow warbler (heard)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher (heard)
Solitary vireo (heard)
Lots of White-throated Sparrows
a few Dark-eyed Juncos
a couple of Brown Thrashers
Catbirds
Constitution Gardens
More Yellow-rumped Warblers
a Yellow Warbler
lots of Hermit Thrushes
a few Wood Thrushes
a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
a large flock of American Goldfinches
more White-throated Sparrows
more juncos
some Chipping Sparrows
an Eastern Towhee
more Catbirds
Jim
Jim Felley
Smithsonian Institution
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