This morning (9/11) at Rock Creek Park….

A first fall CONNECTICUT WARBLER was spotted by Jim Lemert in the Maintenance Yard ravine.  It was subsequently seen walking in the weeds by David Gersten, Bill Butler, Mardi Hastings and me.

Other highlights included Blackpoll, Tennessee, Cape May and Prairie Warblers.

12 Warblers: BT Green, Magnolia, Redstart, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, Connecticut, B&W, Prairie, Blackburnian, Cape May, Yellowthroat

---Ridge
Black-throated Green Warbler
Magnolia Warbler  2
American Redstart  5
TENNESSEE WARBLER  (Frank)
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chimney Swift  5
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo  9+
Swainson's Thrush  
Scarlet Tanager 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1 seen, 1 heard
Cedar Waxwing  10  fly by
Baltimore Oriole
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher

----Maintenance Yard Parking Lot
BLACKPOLL WARBLER  (Michael)
American Redstart
Yellow-throated Vireo  heard
White-breasted Nuthatch
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1 seen 1 heard

----Fence Line
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
House Wren

----Maintenance Yard
CONNECTICUT WARBLER  first fall  (Jim, David, Bill, Mardi, Wallace)
Magnolia Warbler  3
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  10
PRAIRIE WARBLER  (photographed by Matt S.)
Blackburnian Warbler
American Redstart
CAPE MAY WARBLER  (Frank)
Pileated Woodpecker  2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Empid. sp.  2
Red-eyed Vireo  8+
Carolina Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Thrasher
Swainson's Thrush
Gray Catbird
Scarlet Tanager  4
Northern Cardinal 4
Baltimore Oriole  3
Orchard Oriole

Observers:  Jim Lemert, David Gersten with sons David and Gabriel, Frank Hawkins, Matt Sileo, Marjorie Rachlin, Stu Wilson, Dan Eberly, Brad Beukema, Mardi Hastings, Ed Lyon, Ellen, Tim, Harry G., John Stinson, Matt Finer, +++

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC

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