just wanted to thank Wallace and everyone else from "the yard" for 
posting all the wondrous creatures streaming through.  this season I am 
resting a bit after a dumb bike accident and a broken collarbone.so I am 
enjoying the migration (and those yellow rails tales) vicariously.

until today, I might have been disdainful of reports of nice but not 
rare birds appearing in ones yard.  my afternoon was greatly brightened 
by a male rose-breasted grosbeak on our feeder just now; this builds on 
the blue-gray gnatcatcher that was also a yard first during my 
recovery.  and one beautiful day weeks earlier, with house guests as 
witnesses we had two pileated woodpeckers drop by and ignore the crow 
trying to mob it away.  someone is definitely looking down on me.


Wallace Kornack wrote:

> A dull gray and ultimately rainy morning at Rock Creek Park.  After  
> hearing the BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER the last few days it was seen  
> today in the maintenance yard.  Yellow-rumped Warblers continue to  
> migrate in large numbers.  Birds seen or heard are listed by site as  
> follows:
>
> ---Equitation Field, Ridge and Picnic Area 20
>
> Yellow-rumped Warbler      40+
> Black-and-white Warbler    2
> Yellow Warbler       (Tim)
> Blue-winged Warbler     heard
> Ovenbird      several heard
> Northern Parula      several heard
> Scarlet Tanager     2 male + 1 female
> Double-crested Cormorant      fly over
> YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO      FOY fly over  (Tim)
> Baltimore Oriole       2
> Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher  2
> Pileated Woodpecker
> Wood Thrush     heard
> SWAINSON"S THRUSH      FOY  (Jim)
> Blue Jay   3  fly over
> American Goldfinch  3
> Eastern Towhee
> Plus Titmouse, Cardinal, White-throated Sparrow, Chickadee, Robin
>
> ---Maintenance Yard Fence Line and Parking Lot
> Eastern Towhee
> Pileated Woodpecker
> American Robin
>
> ----Maintenance Yard
> BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER     FOY     (Jim)
> Blue-winged Warbler       (Jim)
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> Carolina Chickadee
> Tufted Titmouse
>
> Participants:  Linda Friedland,  Lydia Schindler, Susan Hunt, 
> Eleanore  Talmage, Mary Rojas, Marty Hastings, John Stinson, Tim 
> Houghton, Bill  Butler, Jim Lemert, David Bolton
>
> Have Fun Birding!
>
> Wallace Kornack
> Washington DC
>