This morning (4/27) at Rock Creek Park…..

First-of-year birds seen:  BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, BELTED KINGFISHER, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, COMMON LOON, RED-TAILED HAWK, ROYAL TERN

----Ross Drive
Ovenbird     heard
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Wood Thrush     3 heard
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch

----Ridge
WORM-EATING WARBLER     heard  (Gary)
BLACK-THROATED BLUE     FOY  (Lisa)
Yellow-rumped Warbler     10+
ROYAL TERN     2  FOY flyby  Olivier, Mathias)
BELTED KINGFISHER     FOY  (Scot)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER     3  FOY  rare  (Olivier, Susan)
American Robin     10+
Night Heron sp.   flyby
Cedar Waxwing     5  flyby
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow     2
White-throated Sparrow
European Starling     4
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole     4
American Goldfinch

----Yard Parking Lot
Eastern Phoebe  
White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole     heard
House Sparrow     6

-----Fence Line
Black-throated Green Warbler     heard
Eastern Phoebe
Carolina Chickadee
WOOD THRUSH
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5+

 -----Maintenance Yard
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER      (Stephen, Scot)
Black-and-white Warbler     heard
Black-throated Green Warbler     heard
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5+
Ovenbird     heard
Nashville Warbler     heard  (Scot)
COMMON LOON     FOY  flyby  (Scot)
Mourning Dove     2
Indigo Bunting     2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Gray Catbird
Chimney Swift
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Chipping Sparrow     2
Northern Cardinal     2
American Goldfinch

----Stable Area
Yellow-rumped Warbler     3
Mourning Dove
YELLOW-THROATED VIREO
Northern Cardinal      3
American Crow
American Robin     10+
Common Grackle     4  flyby
White-throated Sparrow     8
House Sparrow     many

----Dog Run
Yellow-rumped Warbler
RED-TAILED HAWK    FOY  flyby
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Brown-headed Cowbird

Observers:  Lisa Shannon, Susan Volman, Marjorie Rachlin, Gary Nelson, Bill Butler, Scot Loss, Derric Pennington, Olivier Langrand, Mathias Bechtolsheim, Rodger Poore, Stephen Jones++

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC

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