Hi all --

Just seemed like a good day for Hains Point and our expectations were more
than met! Along Buckeye Drive, SIX (count 'em) CATTLE EGRETS on the golf
course amongst the Ring-bills. Also, we were hearing a lot of song so did
the area near the clubhouse, and drove slowly to the point, stopping
frequently. At the point, a serious fall-out of migrants with goodies such
as 4 male Scarlet Tanagers together low down in a tree, and a
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER singing and foraging at the tip of a huge old oak.

We called Paul Pisano at work to report the egrets and migrants, and he told
us of the LITTLE BLUE HERON reported yesterday near the second toilet block
(on river side). We stopped there and found the immature heron (white with
some bluish feathering scattered) in a small pool on the golf course to the
right of the toilets. The Great Catbird Fallout of several days ago has been
replaced by a Yellow Warbler incursion, we saw and heard about 15 in East
Potomac Park and a couple more driving through West Potomac Park en route
home. In contrast to recent dark days, most of these birds were seen!

Birds of interest:

CATTLE EGRET (6)
LITTLE BLUE HERON (1, immature)
Least Sandpiper (6)
Solitary Sandpiper (1)
Chimney Swift (100+ over the river and point)
Eastern Kingbird (2)
Great Crested Flycatcher (1)
Eastern Wood-pewee (1, FOY)
unID'd Empid (1)
Red-eyed Vireo (4)
White-eyed Vireo (1)
Warbling Vireo (4-5)
Purple Martin (4-5)
No. Rough-winged Swallow (~8-10)
Tree Swallow (6)
Barn Swallow (many)
(BUT NO Bank Swallows today...)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1)
Cedar Waxwing (heard only)
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER (1, singing in clump of birches across from clubhouse)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (2)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (35+)
Black-throated Green Warbler (2)
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER (1)
Blackpoll Warbler (1)
Palm Warbler (2, yellow)
Yellow Warbler (15, singing everywhere!)
Common Yellowthroat (5)
American Redstart (1)
Scarlet Tanager (6)
Chipping Sparrow (4-5)
Swamp Sparrow (2)
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (2, near clubhouse)
BLUE GROSBEAK (1, 1st spring male)
Indigo Bunting (1)
Orchard Oriole (2-3)
Baltimore Oriole (6)

En route home through Rock Creek Park:

No. Parula (1)
Ovenbird (2)

So 12 warbler species for the day...

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD