After seeing the Glossy Ibis and Rusty Blackbirds at KAG (as well as Black Ducks, Tree Swallows, vocal pair of Kingfishers, Osprey and Red-shouldered Hawks plus the other "usual suspects") Barry and I went to Anacostia Park and thence to Hains Point.

At Anacostia Park, best birds were two Caspian Terns in alternate plumage on a gravel bank (nice, first of year for us), a Lesser Black-Backed Gull across the river at the marina, and about 60 Double-crested Cormorants near the Navy Yard (hope someone who can get closer to them is checking for the Neotropic -- though that bird probably did leave the area last winter, you never know!).

At Hains Point, lots of tourists hoping for open cherry blossoms (not yet, guys...) and four Horned Grebes in Washington Channel, two in summer plumage, plus about 20 Lesser Scaup both sides of the point, and not much else. Osprey on the RR bridge, no sign of the Peregrines.

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Silver Spring, MD