After a fantastic "86 species in 6 hours" morning yesterday in DC with  
Will McPhail, I decided to take it easy and sleep in this morning.   
Well, actually, somehow my phone ended up on mute and I didn't hear  
the 6am "gotta get up and go warbling" alarm.  And of course missed  
the early phone calls about the Painted Bunting at Haines Point.  It  
was all good - the sleep was welcome.

So, my wife & baby Jack and I went off to Roosevelt Island in DC later  
in the morning looking for the Cliff Swallows - Jess has never seen  
any.  No luck with those - earlier in the week a crow was flying under  
the bridge and coming up with large chunks of swallow nests.  I'm  
hoping the crow didn't scare away the Cliff Swallows.  There were  
plenty of Barn Swallows around.

It did wind up being a good warbler morning on the Island though - my  
first DC Wilson's, as well as:
Black Throated Blue
Magnolia
Chestnut Sided
Blackpoll
Common Yellowthroat

Cheers,
Steve Hersey
Washington, DC