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Rock Creek Park, Monday 10/19

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Wallace Kornack

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Wallace Kornack

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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:15:14 -0400

Excellent morning at the Equitation Field in Rock Creek Park....   
There were many Chipping Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warblers and Palm  
Warblers as well as a fine assortment of other migrating birds.

------Equitation Field
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler      50+
Palm Warbler      50+
Common Yellowthroat      2
Blue-headed Vireo      4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet      30+
Golden-crowned Kinglet      15+
Winter Wren
House Wren
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker      2
Pileated Woodpecker      2
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker      2
Brown Creeper
Hermit Thrush
Dark-eyed Junco      5
Broad-winged Hawk      1 possible
Eastern Phoebe      4
Chipping Sparrow      35+
White-throated Sparrow      10+
Swamp Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow      8+
Gray Catbird      5
White-breasted Nuthatch      heard
Eastern Towhee
American Goldfinch
Canada Goose      fly by
American Robin      8+
Chimney Swift      2
American Crow      9   fly by

------Ridge
Palm Warbler      12+
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-headed Vireo
Golden-crowned Kinglet      2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet      15+
Hermit Thrush
Chipping Sparrow      11+
Song Sparrow      4
Dark-eyed Junco      5
Tufted Titmouse
Canada Geese      13  fly by
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Northern Flicker
Chimney Swift

------Stables Area
Nashville Warbler
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Golden-crowned Kinglet      10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet      5
Hermit Thrush    (0n trail)

------Maintenance Yard
Palm Warbler       5
Yellow-rumped Warbler      6+
Eastern Phoebe      4
Chipping Sparrow      12+
Song Sparrow    4
Swamp Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco      2
Cooper's Hawk
House Wren
Carolina Chickadee
American Robin      4
Turkey Vulture      3  fly by

Observers:  Ottavio Janni, Bill Butler

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC