Toured the Ridge, Maintenance Yard, Stables, and Dog Run in Rock Creek
Park. Highlights of the morning included PHILADELPHIA VIREO, WHITE-
EYED VIREO, BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, and
NORTHERN PARULA. There were nine to ten warbler species.
-----Maintenance Yard
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Magnolia Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Mourning Dove 2
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO 1 (Gail)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 heard
Traill's Flycatcher (possible Alder FC)
WHITE-EYED VIREO 1 (Dave)
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO 1 (Gail)
Carolina Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 1
Indigo Bunting 1
American Goldfinch 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Separately Mike saw the following birds in the Yard and Ridge:
TENNESSEE WARBLER 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER 1 FOS
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
American Redstart 2
NORTHERN PARULA 1 FOS
Black-and-white Warbler 1
PHILADELPHIA VIREO 1 FOS
-----Stables Area
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler (possible) FOS (Dave)
Magnolia Warbler 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
-----Dog Run
Purple Martin 1 fly over
Song Sparrow 2
Observers: Mike Bowen, Gail Mackiernan, Barry Cooper, Bill Butler,
Dave Bolton. Alisa Glassman
Have Fun Birding!
Wallace Kornack
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