This morning (9/15) at Rock Creek Park....  A male HOODED WARBLER in brilliant plumage was seen in the Maintenance Yard ravine---clearly the highlight of the morning.

Warblers:  Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Black-and-white, Yellowthroat, Magnolia, Redstart, Blackburnian, Hooded, Canada, Parula, Nashville

----Ridge
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Magnolia Warbler     3
American Redstart  
Red-eyed Vireo     10+   
Eastern Wood-Pewee     3
White-breasted Nuthatch
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Chimney Swift     6+
Common Grackle     6
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     2
Veery
Wood Thrush

---Equitation Field
Magnolia Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Empid.

----Maintenance Yard
HOODED WARBLER     (Matt)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat     2
CANADA WARBLER     (Hugh)
Magnolia Warbler     4
American Redstart     4
Northern Parula
NASHVILLE WARBLER      (Jim)
Philadelphia Vireo      possible
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO      heard
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO     (JIm)
House Wren 
Carolina Wren
Traill's Flycatcher
Empid.
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Rose-breasted Grosbeak     2
Indigo Bunting
Blue Jay
Eastern Towhee

---Stable Area (Dan, Cindie)
Brown Thrasher     5
Scarlet Tanager

Observers:  Matt Finer, Hugh O'Malley, Clinton, Bill Butler, Marjorie Rachlin, Mike Bowen, Tucker, Judy Shafer, Jay Jones, Claire Nemes, Dan Eberly, Cindie Loeper, +

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington DC