Yesterday, in the area of the Lincoln Monument, most birds were

in Constitution Gardens, primarily flocks of feeding robins,

grackles and starlings.  Also at Constitution Gardens,

   A continuing Pied-billed Grebe

   Flocks of Dark-eyed Juncoes

   (1) Ruby-crowned Kinglet

   (1) Red-bellied Woodpecker

   (2) Northern Flickers

   (1) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Probably, if I could have waited, I could eventually have recorded

a Downy, but alas it was only a 3-woodpecker day.  Absent from

the area where last-week's Phoebes and different Song Sparrows.

 

   At the DC Veteran's Memorial, more robins and grackles, as

well as White-throated Sparrows.

 

   In the Tidal Basin itself, a couple dozen Lesser Scaup (mostly

males) and 6-7 Double-crested Cormorants.

 

   Below the train bridge over the Potomac, a Horned Grebe.

   I saw no Ospreys on the nest, but was able to admire their 

handiwork, as they seem to have decorated the nest with a large

dark garbage bag, fluttering in the wind.  Perhaps they were 

inspired by trailer-park decorations they saw while wintering

in Florida.

 

Sorry about my 'day-late' postings for Monday lunch-time walks,

but that is what pesky work forces upon me.

 

Jim

 

Jim Felley

Smithsonian Institution