Yes, the Common Grackles are back!  I was wondering where they were.  A
couple of displaying males were in the trees in front of the Hirshhorn
Museum.  This morning there was a large flock of American Robins and
Cedar Waxwings in the Enid Haupt Garden behind the Castle.  There are a
few Swamp Sparrows in the rushes of the North American Indian Museum
pond.  And yesterday, a Cooper's Hawk was sitting on the arrow part of
the Castle weathervane.

 

Jim

 

Jim Felley

Smithsonian Institution