Along a small greenway (Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River) off Rt 29 
(Colesville Rd) today, my wife and I saw or heard:

Hairy woodpecker (2)
Northern Parula (2)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher (feeding a voracious young cowbird)
Ovenbird
Wood thrush
Baltimore oriole
Red-eyed vireo
Acadian flycatcher
Great-crested flycatcher

We also saw a few species of butterflies and an abundance of Ebony jewelwings, 
one of the more beautiful damselflies.  The area is unfortunately under rapid 
invasion from tree-of-heaven, mile-a-minute, Japanese stiltgrass, porcelain 
berry, and many more non-natives.  If you keep your head up and don't glance at 
the poor understory, the walk is quite pretty.

Noah Kahn
Silver Spring, MD

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