This morning (5/20) at Rock Creek Park....  A MOURNING WARBLER was seen at the Fence Line--a short distance from the Maintenance Yard.  There were lots of BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS to go around for everyone's pleasure. Also a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was found.

Warblers seen/heard: Mourning, Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll, Black-throated Blue, Black-and-white, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Northern Parula, American Redstart, Cape May (H), Common Yellowthroat  

----Equitation Field
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER     8
Black-throated Blue Warbler (fem.)
Blackpoll Warbler     3
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler     3
Magnolia Warbler     9
Northern Parula     3
Red-eyed Vireo     6+
Cedar Waxwing     25  fly by
Scarlet Tanager
Baltimore Oriole     5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     heard
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2
Chimney Swift     4
White-breasted Nuthatch
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher     5+
Carolina Chickadee     3+
Rock Pigeon

----Ridge
American Redstart     3
Northern Parula     3
Magnolia Warbler
CAPE MAY WARBLER      heard  (Dave)
Blackpoll Warbler     2
Baltimore Oriole     2

----Maintenance Yard Parking Lot
Blackpoll Warbler

----Fence Line
MOURNING WARBLER     FOY  (Sharon)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Blackpoll Warbler      
Empid sp.

----Maintenance Yard
BLACKBURNIAN  WARBLER
Black-throated Green Warbler     3
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler     2
Common Yellowthroat     2
American Redstart     3
Northern Parula     5
Magnolia Warbler     2
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO     (Jim)
Red-eyed Vireo     5
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER     (Jim)
Acadian Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Swainson's Thrush     2
Scarlet Tanager     3
Baltimore Oriole
Empid sp.
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Chimney Swift      3-4  flying low in Yard
American Goldfinch     5+

---Nature Center
Baltimore Oriole     2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Bluebird

---Dog Run
Blackpoll Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Kingbird
Cooper's Hawk
Gray Catbird
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Blue Jay
Swainson's Thrush
Scarlet Tanager

Observers:  Sharon Forsyth, Derek Richardson, Dave Bolton, Marge Rachlin, Kathryn Kratzer, Mardi Hastings, Alisa Glassman, Jim Lemert, John Williamson, Hugh O'Malley, Betsy Stephens, Ralph Stephens, Andy Purnell

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC