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Edgewater, 5/2 & California, 5/1

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"Bell, Tyler"

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Bell, Tyler

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Tue, 2 May 2006 14:07:57 -0400

Yesterday while Jane and I were walking after work, we heard our first
Summer Tanagers singing near our house. We are lucky that we have both
Scarlet and Summer Tanagers nesting nearby in our home atlas block.

Today, 5/2, I did a lunch walk at the Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center here in Edgewater. Diversity here is not usually great but there
were a decent number of warblers including Pine, Parula, Black-throated
Green, Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroat, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated
Vireos, several Scarlet Tanagers and Wood Thrushes. When I was almost
back to my office I spied a couple of BVs and TVs in a thermal. When I
looked at them with binoculars, I noticed a couple of dot hawks. I think
they were Am. Kestrels based on the string of pearls across the trailing
edge of the wing but they were so small it's hard to be sure. I was
amazed that there was anything in what I had assumed was empty sky.

A pair of House Finches has nested again in a bathroom fan opening on
the trailer next to mine. I can just see the female's eye between fan
blades as she peers suspiciously at me as I come and go.

Tyler Bell

California, MD