I had the good fortune today, Jan. 13, to see the Ovenbird in the
Smithsonian's Ripley Garden.
Time was about 8:40-8:45. It had rained earlier, but the rain had
stopped and it was just cloudy.
I happened to be looking in the right direction at the right time.
Today the Ovenbird was in the large odd-shaped almost semi-circular
raised brick plant bed in the wide part of the garden. It emerged
from underneath one of the tallest plants, and started foraging among
the various shorter plants. I stood on a bench and got a good look
with my binoculars. Then it flew a few feet southward to underneath
some bushes with green leaves in the raised bed backed by the wood
fence (where the garden widens out and near the almost sculpture-like
black pedestal planter with some plant having bare white stems). It
then emerged from under the green bushes and was foraging about among
some purple pansies, pardon me if I am wrong about the flowers. I got
another good look at it. At that point I needed to leave.
I've reported it to eBird along with the rest of my sightings for my
short walk:
7th St. from Maryland Ave. to Pennsylvania Ave. via detour thru Mary
Ripley Livingston Garden:
5 Ring-billed Gull
2 Rock Pigeon
2 Blue Jay
2 Northern Mockingbird
24 European Starling
1 Ovenbird
55 House Sparrow
Claire Kluskens
On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:44 AM, FELLEY, JAMES wrote:
> Steve,
> There was definitely an Ovenbird in the Ripley Garden last week,
> and
> I also saw one in the garden before December 12. Perhaps Janet can
> connect the dots. I'll ask.
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Pretl [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:17 AM
> To: ; FELLEY, JAMES
> Subject: Re: Ripley ovenbird (=Buddy)
>
> On the DC CBC (Dec. 16), we searched the Ripley Garden twice, but
> unfortunately didn't find the Ovenbird. The last sighting I've seen
> posted
> is for Dec. 12, which I guess puts it outside the count week period.
> Did
> anyone see it later than that?
>
> Steve Pretl |