A fine morning at Rock Creek Park. The best areas for birding were the  
equitation field and maintenance yard parking lot.  The most striking  
sight was the BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and BALTIMORE OREOLE sitting one  
above the other.  Other highlights included the PARULA, CHESTNUT-SIDED  
and BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, ORCHARD OREOLE, and SCARLET TANAGER.

BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER    1 FOY
Yellow-rumped Warbler   15+
NORTHERN PARULA     2  FOY
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER    1 FOY
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER    1-2 FOY
Palm Warbler     1
Black-and-white Warbler     1
Worm-eating Warbler     1
Ovenbird     heard

ORCHARD OREOLE       FOY
BALTIMORE OREOLE      FOY
Downy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     2
Pileated Woodpecker     1  ridge
Acadian Flycatcher     1  heard
Eastern Phoebe     2  heard
Yellow-throated Vireo     2  heard
BLUE-HEADED VIREO     1
Red-eyed Vireo     2
Blue Jay     50
American Crow     1
Fish Crow     1
Carolina Chickadee     3
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Carolina Wren     3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     6
Eastern Bluebird     2
Wood Thrush     heard
American Robin     30+
Cuckoo sp.  flyover
GRAY CATBIRD    1  FOY
SCARLET TANAGER    1 FOY
Eastern Towhee     2
Chipping Sparrow     1
Field Sparrow     1
White-throated Sparrow     10
Northern Cardinal     2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     3  female
Indigo Bunting     1
Common Grackle     2
Brown-headed Cowbird     3
House Sparrow     6

Observers:  Linda Friedland, Bill Butler, Jim Lemert, Chip Shipley,  
Jeremy, Evelyn Ralston, David Apgar, Gary Nelson, Roger Poor, Judith  
and several others.

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington DC