For the Montgomery Bird Club, Mike Bowen led 8 of us on a productive morning outing to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and the adjacent Kenilworth Park in the District of Columbia. I kept the list for the outing. As you can see from the list at the end of this message, we saw 46 species. The morning was grayer than expected and we had a brief shower, but the birds were pretty cooperative. Highlights included: two Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (at least one of which was an adult male) chasing each other around and around trees and bushes near the parking lot at KAG for quite a while (behavior none of us had seen before); Red-Shouldered, Coopers, and Sharp-shinned Hawks; two male American Kestrel sitting on soccer goal posts in Kenilworth Park; Palm Warblers of both the eastern and western forms; and lots of Chipping, Song, Swamp, White-Throated, and Field Sparrows.
The full list follows, generated by Cornell's eBird system. I notice many other MDOsprey contributors also use eBird, and I have a question for you about your experiences with the system. Usually when I submit my observations, I ask eBird to send me an email report of my observations. I have found that, while eBird seems to generate the email promptly and send it, I don't receive it in my inbox until about 24 hours later. Have any of you had this problem? I get my email through Verizon.
Thanks.
Jim Nelson
Bethesda, Maryland
P.S. As you see below, eBird has KAG in their system misspelled and misnamed. I have written to them about this.
Location: Kenelworth Water Gardens
Observation date: 10/22/06
Notes: Palm warblers included both Eastern and Western forms.
Number of species: 46
Canada Goose 16
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 15
Mallard 16
Great Egret 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
American Kestrel 2
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Ring-billed Gull 44
Herring Gull 2
Mourning Dove 13
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 8
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 17
American Crow 8
Fish Crow 3
Tree Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 8
American Robin 47
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 18
European Starling 54
Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
Palm Warbler 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 19
Field Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 24
Swamp Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 15
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Northern Cardinal 22
Red-winged Blackbird 82
Common Grackle 2
House Finch 4 |