Yesterday was a fantastic birding day in DC.  (sorry for the late post  
on this).  I've been hunting (with binocs) Wild Turkeys for a while in  
DC and have always struck out.  Tom Jones saw some a few days back at  
10:15am at Poplar Point in Anacostia Park, so, yesterday at about that  
time I hoped they were sticking to a pattern and I headed down there.   
Sure enough, four female Turkeys were strolling around right where he  
had seen them.  So, add a DC Life bird to my list.

As I did a u-turn to take another pass by the Turkeys I saw a big  
black bird in a tree right next to the driveway to the Park Police  
station.  It looked way bigger than a crow so I got excited about the  
possibilities for a Common Raven - a difficult find in DC.  I took a  
quick look and snapped some photos and then went back to the Turkeys.   
And yes, it was definitely a Raven.  Another DC Lifer.

Great day!  I posted a photo just for the record:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/sherseydc/

Cheers,
Steve Hersey
Washington, DC