The two avocets seen by Dan Rauch at Anacostia Park across from the battleship (are we sure it's not a frigate?) were still there at 12:30.  One still had good color, but the other has lost most of its.  If you park at the point and walk up a ways to the first concrete casement, you look right down on them.  Also along the Anacostia in this area were 2 Caspian Terns and a dozen or so Laughing Gulls.

From about 8:30 to 11:30, Mike Bowen and I were at four stops between Kenilworth Aquatic Garden and Kingman Island and did not see a frigatebird.  At KAG, Mike had found killdeer (14), spotted sandpiper (2), and yellowlegs (1 greater and 1 lesser).  There were 3 great egrets, 3 or 4 great blue herons, and 1 green heron.

At Kenilworth Park, we added 4 more killdeer and had a bald eagle chasing an osprey with a fish.

Then Mike introduced me to a new area of mudflats viewable from Langston Golf Course.  If you park at the driving range off Benning Rd and walk back along the periphery of the driving range and golf course to the 13th hole (about 3/4's of a mile), there is a footbridge.  To the right you look out on the Anacostia River and Kenilworth Park across the way; to the left are extensive mudflats.  Here we found another dozen killdeer, 2 greater yellowlegs, 17 or 18 least sandpipers, and 1 semipalmated sandpiper, 2 great egrets and 1 great blue heron.  One laughing gull was spotted across the river on a mudflat.

At Kingman Island, there were 2 spotted sandpipers, 4 great egrets, 1 great blue heron, and about 15 laughing gulls on the RFK lot.

Tom Jones
Washington, D.C.