Dear All

With apologies for the belated post a quick note to add in a few birds that I don't think have been picked up in the various reports.

A small group of us visited the DC Arboretum on Saturday morning (after failing on the King Rail at KAG as Paul reported last night), which was good with a usual selection of migrants but notably two singing Cape Mays one of which showed quite well, an early Blackpoll and three Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.  We saw nine spp of warbler and other groups added another two spp.

I then had another Cape May singing around our house in Van Ness later on Saturday, which was nice.  Unfortunately I couldn't quite hear it from the garden.  Ah well.

I wasn't able to get out for the Catbird fall at Hains on Sunday but a friend of mine - Jack Tordoff - did see a couple of additional warblers at RCP late in the morning including a Tenessee in the Maintenance Yard Car Park and a Blue-wing too.

Again there were lots of birds around the house yesterday morning but I was not able to get out.  Another colleague saw 8 warbler spp in a cycle ride along the Potomac -  Prothonotary (1), Worm-eating (1) on Roosevelt Isl, Black-throated Blue (1), Myrtle (5), Parula (4), La. Waterthrush (1), No. Waterthrush (2), Ovenbird (2) - plus 5 Bobolinks in the grass at Gravelly Pt.

This morning there were about 40 Cedar Waxwings around the house and a couple of Barn Swallows have flown past the office in central DC, so things are humming along nicely.

Tum tee tum...

Gary Allport

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