Hello.
I took a pleasant birding walk around the National Arboretum this
morning. A few of these were first-of-the-year birds for me, including
the great looks I got at the rose-breasted grosbeak and black-throated
blue warbler.
The two eagles were flying together in close formation, making very
high-pitched calls. It looked to me like a courtship display, but it
seems late in the season for them to be starting. So perhaps it was a
territorial thing.
Bald Eagle
Chimney Swift
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher (Azalea Gardens)
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Brown Thrasher
Wood Thrush
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula (everywhere)
Yellow Warbler (Heart Pond)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Azalea Gardens)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (lots, everywhere)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Azalea Gardens)
Blackburnian Warbler (singing, Hickey Hill)
Pine Warbler (singing, Hickey Hill)
Ovenbird (Azalea Gardens)
Common Yellowthroat
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting (Asian Gardens)
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole (Fern Valley meadow)
I was a little disturbed to see large numbers of house sparrows in the
woods around the Azalea Gardens. Before the past couple weeks, I had not
seen them there before.
Good birding,
John Beetham
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John D. Beetham
Washington, DC
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