This cold morning (4/18) at Rock Creek Park...  The highlight was a report from Jim Lemert who saw a tan-striped morph of the White-throated Sparrow with unusual color.  The entire eyebrow and central crown stripe had the same bright yellow color as the lores instead of the usual tan. It was seen in the Maintenance Yard Parking Lot near the gate. Also Gary Allport heard a White-eyed Vireo at the Dog Run and a Blue-headed Vireo at the Ridge .  Yesterday Alisa Glassman and others saw a Blue-headed Vireo at the Nature Center.

---Equitation Field  
Palm Warbler (yellow)
Northern Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee  
Brown-headed Cowbird     2
Northern Cardinal     3
Blue-gray Natcatcher
Eastern Towhee     1

----Ridge  
BLUE-HEADED VIREO    heard  (Gary)
Hermit Thrush      heard  (Gary, Jim)

----Stable Area   (Bill)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
White-throated Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco

-----Maintenance Yard Parking Lot
Palm Warbler (yellow)
Yellow-rumped Warbler     10
Common Loon      flyover      3
Mourning Dove
Carolina Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     4
Red-bellied Woodpecker     4
Downy Woodpecker     2
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-throated Sparrow      3
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, TAN-STRIPED MORPH     (Jim)
Chipping Sparrow      2
Eastern Towhee     2
Dark-eyed Junco     2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     2
Brown-headed Cowbird     2
Blue Jay     2
American Crow
Northern Cardinal      8

----Dog Run  (Bill, Gary)
WHITE-EYED VIREO     heard   (Gary)
Brown Thrasher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Eastern Towhee 

Observers:  Bill Butler, Jim Lemert, Gary Allport

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC