Message:

[

Previous   Next

]

By Topic:

[

Previous   Next

]

Subject:

National Arboretum (DC) 4/29

From:

"John D. Beetham"

Reply-To:

John D. Beetham

Date:

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:56:55 -0400

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

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John D. Beetham
Washington, DC

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~