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Mourning & 18 other warbler species at Rock Creek Park

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David Apgar

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David Apgar

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Fri, 12 May 2006 11:38:35 -0400

A mourning warbler skulking at the first sharp bend on the path leading 
from the far end of the nature center's loop trail highlighted a day with 
a large fallout of warblers, red-eyed vireos and female scarlet tanagers 
on the ridge.  Clive found it singing (the bird was singing, not Clive).  
At 9:45, which must have been at least half an hour after Clive saw it, 
Mike Parr and I found it in the same place, but silent.  A partial list 
from the groups I saw on the ridge and in the maintenance yard follows.

Great blue heron (1 flyover)
Yellow-billed cuckoo (at least 1 heard at ridge)
Common nighthawk (1 roosting in a white oak on the ridge at 18)
Chimney swifts
Northern flicker (at least 3)
Downy woodpecker (at least 5)
Red-bellied woodpecker (at least 3)
Eastern kingbird (1 at ridge)
Great crested flycatcher (at least 3)
Eastern wood-pewee (several heard)
Acadian flycatcher (at least 2)
Red-eyed vireo (at least 20 on ridge and in yard)
Philadelphia vireo (Gail got a good look; I think I found it later)
Parids
White-breasted nuthatch (at least 2)
House and Carolina wren
Blue-grey gnatcatcher (at least 10)
Brown thrasher
Mockingbird and catbird
Eastern bluebird and wood thrush
Swainson's thrush (at least 1)
Veery (at least 1)
American redstart (at least 8)
Northern parula (2 seen well; at least 2 others heard)
Black-and-white (at least 6)
Worm-eating (at least 2 heard, 1 seen)
Mourning warbler (seen twice near Nature Ctr over an hour as noted above)
Canada warbler (at least 5 separate birds seen on ridge and in yard)
Nashville (1 right of tangle in yard)
Tennessee (seen by Gail, who apparently attracts Vermivora warblers)
Blackburnian (at least 3)
Chestnut-sided (at least 5)
Yellow-rumped (waves of females)
Magnolia (at least 4)
Black-throated green (at least 7)
Prairie (1 heard at head of trail from stable to yard)
Yellow (1 at yard)
Black-throated blue (at least 6)
Blackpoll (at least 8)
Ovenbird (many heard, at least 1 seen)
Common yellowthroat (at least 6)
Baltimore oriole (at least 6)
Scarlet tanager (at least 3 male, over 10 female)
Rose-breasted grosbeak (at least 1 seen by others)
Indigo bunting (at least 8)
Chipping sparrow (at least 5)
Lincoln's sparrow (1 seen to right of tangle near ground at yard)

Others may have seen and I may have heard a bay-breasted warbler at the 
yard; others may have seen a Wilson's warbler on the ridge; but I haven't 
counted them here.