Dear All

Just a quick and belated note on yesterday morning in Rock Creek around the 
Nature Centre, stables and Maintenance Yard, as I see that no one else has 
posted.  It was nice birding although not as rocking as it had been mid-
week.  Whilst walking down to the stables a few rather stressed-looking DC-
listers shot past en route to the yard in search of the Sedge Wren (proved 
fruitless unfortunately).

Warblers:  Black-and-White (2), Black-throated Blue (4), Black-throated 
Green (5) Blackburnian (1 heard only), Blackpoll (1), Blue-winged (1), 
Chestnut-sided (1), Myrtle (~40), Nashville (2), Ovenbird (1), Parula (1), 
Yellowthroat (1).

Other migrants: Red-eyed Vireo (6), Yellow-billed Cuckoo (3), Wood Thrush 
(5), Veery (1), Swainson's Thrush (1), Scarlet Tanager (5), Baltimore 
Oriole (6), Orchard Oriole (1), a few White-throated Sparrows still, 
LINCOLN'S SPARROW (1), Blue Grosbeak (1), Indigo Bunting (3), R C Kinglet 
(1).  Paul Pisano reported hearing a Red-headed Woodpecker.

We were a rather a large group comprising ten or so members of the Global 
Council of BirdLife International.  One of our number went on to the C&O 
canal reporting Cerulean Warbler and 'many' Prothonotaries in the late 
morning.

The rest of us went to Huntley Meadows where we saw the most fabulous 
Mississippi Kite hawking insects over the wetlands.  See the VA list for 
more details.

Cheers

gary