Hi All,
In spite of the great temptation to head to the forests of Rock Creek park, I decided to make sure not the River and Hains Point were not being negelected by the birding community. I was surprised by a number of late migrating waterbirds including a stunning Horned Grebe, drab female Red-breasted Merganser, a pair of Great Black-backed Gulls and a fair number of Loons. The Constitution Garden pond was still mostly drained, but I was told it will be refilled today in order to save the large mouth bass... Not many shorebirds there, but there was a small group of 6 Least Sandpipers.
Here's the whole eBird list:
East Potomac Park--Hains Pt., District of Columbia, US-DC
May 3, 2012 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: birded from mouth of tidal basin down river to Hains Point and back
48 species
Canada Goose 4
Mallard 12
Common Loon 3
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Green Heron 1
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Peregrine Falcon 1 on railroad bridge
Spotted Sandpiper 1 flying close to shore up river
Laughing Gull 1 in winter plumage standing on rail by Hains Pt.
Ring-billed Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 1 distant - flying up river by airport
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 5
Blue Jay 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Wren 2
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing X heard in mulberry patch
Ovenbird 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 20
Eastern Towhee 1
Savannah Sparrow 1 maintenance road
Song Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 15 maintenance road and golf course fence line
Scarlet Tanager 5 abundant!
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 6
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 1
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
Jason Berry
Washington, DC
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