Message:

[

Previous   Next

]

By Topic:

[

Previous   Next

]

Subject:

Rock Creek Park today 5/16

From:

"Gail B. Mackiernan "

Reply-To:

Gail B. Mackiernan

Date:

Tue, 16 May 2006 14:33:51 +0000

Hi all --

Started out cool, breezy and cloudy at Rock Creek Park DC -- I went directly to the maintanance Yard as I guessed (correctly, in turned out) that the Ridge would be too windy. A trickle of good birds and then after the sun came out, more activity through it dies down fairly soon as the breeze got up. Diversity still OK, numbers still low.

Warblers: Black-throated Blue (2), Black-throated Green (4), Blackburnian (2), Baybreasted (1-2, actually seen, yay!), Blackpoll (8), Canada (3), Chesnut-sided (3), Cape May (1, male singing), Magnolia (3), Myrtle (~10, females, still hanging on...), Nashville (1, heard only), Ovenbird (4-5), Parula (2), Redstart (4-5), Yellowthroat (6).

Other migrants: Great Crested Flycatcher (1), Wood-pewee (2), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4), Scarlet Tanager (4), Red-eyed Vireo (~10), Yellow-throated Vireo (1, heard only), Swainson's Thrush (2), Bobolink (~20, fly-overs), Ruby-throated Hummingbird (2).

Be nice to have a sunny windless morning following a nice warm clear night with SW breezes. Then we might see a really good day... But you have to take what you get!

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD