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Rock Creek Park, DC, Sun., 5/25---Mourning Warblers

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Wallace Kornack

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Wallace Kornack

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Sun, 25 May 2008 12:14:43 -0400

Two MOURNING WARBLERS were seen early AM in the Maintenance Yard of  
Rock Creek Park.

Highlights of the birds seen in the Yard and at the Ridge and Nature  
Center:

Northern Parula     2 (one at Ridge---John)
Chestnut-sided Warbler     7
Magnolia Warbler     17+
Cape May Warbler     (probable female---Lydia)
Black-throated Blue Warbler     (heard)
Yellow-rumped Warbler     7
Black-throated Green Warbler     6
Blackburnian Warbler     5
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER
Blackpoll Warbler     11
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart     5
MOURNING WARBLER     2 (male and female)--seen only by Dave Bolton
Common Yellowthroat     4
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler     (Ridge--John)

Great Blue Heron     (fly over)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl     (Path to Yard)
Eastern Wood-Pewee     2
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher     2
Yellow-throated Vireo     (Ridge---John)
Red-eyed Vireo     10
Gray-cheeked Thrush (Nature Center---Wallace)
Swainson's Thrush     3
Red-shouldered Hawk
White-throated Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     2
Baltimore Oriole
Plus 12 of the usual

Partial List of Observers:  Dave Bolton, Paul DeAnna, Lou DeMouy,  
Marjorie Rachlin, Evelyn Ralston,  Lydia Schindler, Chip Shipley,  
Wallace Kornack, John Williamson,++

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC