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Tidal Basin birds, 2/28

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"FELLEY, JAMES"

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FELLEY, JAMES

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Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:15:41 -0500

I finally got out on the last day of February, to take a quick

walk around the Tidal Basin.  Flocks of American Robins are in

all the hollies surrounding the basin.  At the paddle-boat

concession were several dozen Ring-billed Gulls, about 10

Greater Black-backed Gulls, and a couple of Herring Gulls.

   Near the FDR Memorial was a flock of a few dozen Lesser 

Scaup, along with a pair of American Wigeon and a pair of

Hooded Mergansers.

   At the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, the two male Common

Grackles that showed up last week are still there.  Now they

are wondering where all the grackles are.

 

                   Jim

 

Jim Felley

Smithsonian Institution