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Olive-sided Flycatcher etc at Rock Creek today

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"Gail B. Mackiernan "

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Gail B. Mackiernan

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Wed, 17 May 2006 15:18:49 +0000

Hi all --

Pretty good morning at Rock creek Park DC - started out quiet at the Maintenance Yard, lots of sun, where are the birds? -- but then things livened up. Highlight was a very cooperative OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER which came in and perched in a tall dead snag at the west end of the yard, stayed for about 20 minutes, and later came back for a new crop of birders to admire. Other highlights included a MOURNING WARBLER seen by one birder (only only glimpsed as it hopped off by yours truly, my second "untickable view" of this species this spring, arggh!) and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW in the same area.

Birds seen and heard included:

Warblers: Black-and-White (1, female), Black-throated Blue (4), Black-throated Green (8), Blackburnian (1, female), Blackpoll (~6, heard only), Canada (1-2), Magnolia (3), Myrtle (~6, all females, more were seen by birders at Ridge), Mourning (1), Nashville (1), Ovenbird (5), Parula (3), Redstart (8), Wilson's (1, male), Yellowthroat (10).

Other migrants: Ruby-throated Hummingbird (2), Wood-pewee (3), Olive-sided Flycatcher (1), Acadian Flycatcher (4), Great Crested FC (1), Scarlet Tanager (4), Rose-breasted Grosbeak (3), Swainson's Thrush (4), Red-eyed Vireo (~15), Lincoln's Sparrow (1), Junco (1, female -- what's she doing still here?) Cuckoos seem very thin on the ground this year...

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD