Hi all,


I haven't been out to D.C. much due to large volume of
traffic all the time. But now I'll work on visit more
often. 3rd visit to D.C this year.


05/04/07 - 715am-10am
Rock Creek Park "Nature Center/Stables
Area/Maintenance Yard" Glover Rd., Forest Hills
section of Washington, D.C.

WEATHER: MC/Fair, 53-62 degrees, NE 7 mph- ENE 10 mph

Mourning Dove - 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (Maintenance Yard)
Chimney Swift - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
Blue-headed Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 2
House Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 10
Swainson's Thrush - 1
Wood Thrush - 1
American Robin - 24
Gray Catbird - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 27 (several small flocks)
Northern Parula - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 8
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Blackburnian Warbler - 1
Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 (seen well by several)
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1
Ovenbird - 2
Hooded Warbler - 1
Canada Warbler - 1
Scarlet Tanager - 2
Eastern Towhee - 4
Chipping Sparrow - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 2 (between Stables and Yard)
Common Grackle - 1
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 2
American Goldfinch - 6
House Sparrow - 54
SPECIES: 46
TOTAL BIRDS: 205

MAMMALS
Eastern Chipmunk - 2
Gray Squirrel - 11
White-tailed Deer - 1 (doe)

BUTTERFLIES
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 6
Cabbage White - 2
Pearl Crescent - 2

DRAGONFLIES
Common Green Darner - 1

**Afterward, I made a quick stop at Sligo Creek Pkwy
and found 8 Yellow-crowned Night Heron at 5 nests.
Lack of birds in area. Too many pigeons, starlings,
burger kinglets (aka House Sparrow). 



     Kevin Graff
     Jarrettsville, MD & West O.C., MD
     


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