An early lunch-time walk produced these highlights:
   DC Veteran's Memorial:  A small flock of titmice, chickadees and a couple of White-breasted nuthatches, in the area east of the memorial which still has some understory.
   Constitution Gardens:  A very large feeding flock, composed primarily of Yellow-rumped warblers and Ruby-crowned kinglets, also several Palm warblers (yellow variety) and Eastern phoebes.  In some shrubs south of the pond I found a hummingbird, which looked very like a first-year Ruby-throated (brassy color, short bill).  Any more, I hesitate to be definitive about late hummingbirds.
   No hawks of any sort did I see.
   In the Ripley Garden, Janet the gardener reported that today she has been grubs to a fledgling Catbird (which I looked for but did not see).

Jim

Jim Felley
Smithsonian Institution