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Ft. Bayard Park 4/29--Golden-wing redux

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Jason Waanders

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Jason Waanders

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Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:28 -0400

Not a lot of bird turnover last night, but the good news is that kept the GOLDEN-WNGED WARBLER here.  Today it was foraging fairly low, again mainly in elms, along the 46th St. side of the park (bet. Fessenden St. and River Rd.).  It was also singing today (more on that below).  Unfortunately my daughter, birding with me for the first time in her Baby Bjorn, probably can't count it because she was asleep (not to mention she's probably incapable of understanding what a bird is).

I narrowly missed two listing milestones of my own.  First, I couldn't quite see or hear the Golden-wing from my yard, though I couldn't resist trying for several minutes since it was only half a block away.  And second, a soaring BROAD-WINGED HAWK came close to being park bird #100, but didn't quite qualify under my "rules" because it stayed on the MD side of.Western Ave (silly, yes, but one of the hazards of birding and listing along a "state line").  It's not a bad bet that iBroad-wing could be #100 on another day, though.

About that Golden-winged song: I watched this bird switch off between two very different songs.  One was the "familiar" bee-buzz-buzz song.  But the other was quite different--a steady trill a bit like a Chipping Sparrow (a little shorter, weaker and chopppier), sometimes with a lower note or two at the end.  Would never have placed it as Golden-winged if I hadn't seen it.

Jason Waanders    
NW DC
jwaandersATstarpower.net