The highlight of a nice morning visit to Hughes Hollow today, Monday, 01/16/06, was seeing two Red-shouldered Hawks displaying noisily, flying around together, and finally mating.  No sign of nest-building.  They were in the trees on the east side, south end of the main levee between the two impoundments.  Otherwise kind of quiet

No water birds.
3 Red-shouldered hawk (including the pair mating)
1 Black vulture
1 Turkey vulture
2 Pileated woodpecker
3 Red-bellied woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied sapsucker
3 Northern flicker
3 Downy woodpecker
1 Eastern phoebe4 Fish crow
2 American crow
2 crow sp.
3 Blue jay
1 Belted Kingfisher
4 Carolina chickadee
1 Tufted titmouse
2 White-breasted nuthatch
1 Carolina wren
4 Yellow-rumped warbler
4 Northern cardinal
6 White-throated sparrow

2 Blaze-Orange Rabbit Hunters with 4 beagles

Jim Nelson
Bethesda, MD