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Rock Creek Park Maintenance Yard

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Jason Waanders

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Jason Waanders

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Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:05:17 -0400

Today was a slow day at the Maintenance Yard, with no warblers other than Black-throated Blue.

Best bird for me was a presumed Gray-cheeked Thrush, which gave those of us there a very nice long look, and nice comparison with nearby Swainson's and Wood Thrushes also enjoying the porcelainberries.  This has been a bit of a nemesis bird for me, and I'll take it even if I can't completely rule out that nagging, miniscule possibility it might have been a Bicknell's!

Also of interest in the yard:
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Brown Thrasher
Eastern Bluebirds (flyovers as I was leaving)
Several House Wrens (no Winter)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Several Indigo Buntings
Field Sparrow (a tricky bird with no eye ring; further review when I got home convinced me it couldn't really have been anything else)