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Rock Creek Park, Monday 8/31

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Wallace Kornack

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Wallace Kornack

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:37:06 -0400

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
Washington DC