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Ft Totten Park

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jgbrc

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jgbrc

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Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:53:44 -0700

Hi All,
 
After checking out Rock Creek Park early this morning, I decided to see how Ft. Totten Park (DC) was doing.  At first it was DEAD, but then I was hit a great Warbler flock with a pair of wonderful BAY-SIDED WARBLERs (including a male with lots of "bay color" on it's flanks.  A little later I found another Warbler flock in some scrubby habitat at the extreme northern edge of the park near a service road.  Highlight of that flock was a WILSON'S Warbler.  In total there were 13 species of Warblers seen over 90 minutes.
 
One thing I noticed was they birds seemed to be moving very fast - almost frantic...
 
Here's the total list from eBird:
 
Red-tailed Hawk  2     both birds seen perched at different times/locations
Ring-billed Gull  1     flyover
Mourning Dove  11
Chimney Swift  10
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Empidonax sp.  2
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  3
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
House Wren  1
Swainson's Thrush  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  12
European Starling  X
Ovenbird  1
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  2
Northern Parula  2
Magnolia Warbler  6
Bay-breasted Warbler  2     
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  3
Black-throated Green Warbler  4
Wilson's Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee  2
Song Sparrow  8
Northern Cardinal  4

 
Good birding!
 
Jason Berry
Washington, DC

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