Hi all,

  It was too nice a morning to not go birding, so I delayed working. One nice observation was 
a female Ruby throated Hummingbird gathering spiderwebs for her nest. She hovered 6 feet away from me in the woods. Another nice sight was a hen Wood Duck with 7 new ducklings, the crowd being watched over by a wary father.  A Yellow billed Cuckoo called from the treetops and then dropped lower for a good view.  Also go a FOY Veery.

8:30am-11
Rock Creek Park near Grovesnor Metro at Rt.355

Mallard  5
Wood Ducks 9 (2 parents, 7ducklings)
Red shouldered Hawk  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Black Vulture 1
Common Crow  2
Warbling Vireo 1
Red eyed Vireo 4
Yellow Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird  1
Eastern Woodpeewee  1
Yellow rumped Warber 5+
Black thrt Blue Warbler  2
Chesnut sided Warbler 1
American Redstart  1
Chimney Swifts  3-4
Yellow billed Cuckoo  1
Baltimore Oriole  3
Orchard Oriole 1
Veery  2
Wood Thrush  4
Northern Waterthrush  1
Louisiana Waterthrush   1 
Black & White Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat
Overnbird  1
Rose breasted Grosbeak (female)  1
House Wren  2
Carolina Wren  5
Brown headed Cowbird 3
White throated Sparrow  1 
Gray Catbird (many)
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2  (feeding young)
Hairy Woodpecker 2
White brsted Nuthatch  1
House Finches 2
Northern Cardinals  4
 European Starling 1
Ruby throated Hummingbird  1

D.Ford, Bethesda, Md