Hi All,
 
This morning I made it out rather late to the maintenance yard in Rock Creek Park.  Wallace was there and said I had missed a very respectable warbler day.  Recently he had mentioned that the big weed patches in the maintenance yard was good for both Mourning and Connecticut Warblers.  So since things had calmed down, I thought I'd see what was in there.  Spishing got 3 House Wrens to pop out.  Then a Song Sparrow jumped up into a low hanging branch.  As I was watching the song sparrow I noticed a yellow bird was right next to it, hidden behind a clump of leaves. It then flew towards another smaller weed patch and low and behold it was an Adult Mourning Warbler!  Maneuvering for a better view, two other yellowish birds flushed.  The first was a Common Yellowthroat, and the second a yellow bird with olive-brown upper parts, a virtually complete white eye ring and a slightly yellow throat.  Checking field guides I finally came to the
 conclusion it was a 1st fall Mourning Warbler (however much I wanted it to be a Connecticut!).
 
A little later I biked up to Boundary Trail (where Beach drive crosses the MD/DC border).  By the weed patches just north of the parking lot I spished and got another 1st fall Mourning Warbler.  This bird looked just like the one I had just saw in the Rock Creek Maintenance yard.  There's a chance it was a Connecticut, since I didn't have a long to watch it, but basically looked the saw as the other one.
 
Other birds of note: 
 
Yellow-throated Vireo
Least Flycatcher
Many Blackburnian Warblers
Tons of Baltimore Orioles
 
I bet the birds will be active from 5 - 7pm today, so if you haven't already, get out and enjoy Fall Migration!
 
Jason Berry
Washington, DC
 

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