MD/DC birders:

I am tardy reporting a singing FOS WARBLING VIREO at the C&O Canal, 
Fletcher's Boathouse, Washington, DC, on Thursday, April 24.  I also 
saw the previously reported PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on the River Trail 
upriver from Fletcher's, near the area that is popular with 
fishermen.  Easily spotted by its growing piles of assorted detritus, 
unfortunately.  Also in the area was a singing male ORCHARD 
ORIOLE.  It may have been too late in the day, but for whatever 
reason I could not locate any Yellow-throated Warblers, previously 
reported by Wallace Kornack and Gary Allport.

This morning, April 25, at the Meadowside Nature Center in Rock Creek 
Regional Park, Montgomery County, Joy Bowen and I had 2 LOUISIANA 
WATERTHRUSH, 4 NORTHERN PARULA, 1 PINE WARBLER, 1 PRAIRIE WARBLER and 
2 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT.  Just before we left at about midday we heard 
a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER  and heard and saw a YELLOW-THROATED 
VIREO.  But it was pretty quiet birdwise out there, with just a few 
Yellow-rumped Warblers and many House Wrens.  The place was otherwise 
overrun with school kids enjoying an environmental class -- we were 
particularly impressed with the "Carnivore" team, all boys of course 
(big surprise).

Good Birding

Mike Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club, MOS
Bethesda, MD

D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD  20817
Telephone: (301) 530-5764
e-mail:  dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom