MD/DC birders:

It's been exactly a month since I did any birding in D.C., and the 
warm, humid weather this morning was not very conducive.  However, I 
had business in SE Washington, returning some license tags ("Taxation 
without Representation") from my son's car -- he has moved from 
D.C.to N.Y. City and no longer needs wheels. He still needs his 
father to do errands for him however!

Anyway, its seemed worthwhile to look in at Kenilworth Park, which is 
not far from the D.C. DMV office on Pennsylvania Ave., SE.  Notable 
there were two singing BLUE GROSBEAK, with anxious 'chinking' females 
nearby in both cases.  I also came across a third nervous female but 
in this case did not see or hear a male.  No Yellow-breasted Chats 
were heard there.  INDIGO BUNTINGS were plentiful, also.

A bit later, I walked upstream from the Benning Rd. bridge along the 
fairways of Langston Golf Course.  Level with the second hole along 
(blue flag on the pin) 2 MARSH WRENS were singing in the newly 
constructed marsh.  This is pretty much where we had the same species 
in 2004 in mid-July, when I was on one of Mary Paul's surveys for the USGS.

Good birding.

Mike Bowen
Bethesda, MD

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