There were migrants around the Smithsonian museums this week,

some seen by me, some not:

   Seen by me in the Mary Ripley Garden: 

Ruby-throated hummingbird male, on Tuesday,

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, today

   Those are neat, but better are the two Yellow-breasted Chats

caught and banded by the Smithsonian Environmental Reseach

Center people on Tuesday.  One was caught in the Butterfly

Garden next to the Natural History Museum, the other in the

Hirshhorn garden, by the big magnolia.  Of course I have spent

plenty of time in both spots since and seen neither.  That's how I came
to see 

the sapsucker.  The SERC group also banded some ovenbirds in the same

area, which I also did not see.

 

              Jim

 

Jim Felley

Smithsonian Institution