This morning (5/4) at Rock Creek Park….  

Highlights: female and male CAPE MAY WARBLER, LINCOLN SPARROW, BLACKPOLL WARBLER and WARBLING VIREO.

12 Warblers seen or heard:  Blackpoll, Yellow-rumped, Parula, Nashville, BT Blue, Chestnut-sided, Cape May, Magnolia, Redstart, B&W, BT Green, Yellowthroat

FOY Birds:  Herring Gull, Rough-winged Swallow, Blackpoll Warbler, Warbling Vireo, Lincoln Sparrow

----Ridge
BLACKPOLL WARBLER     FOY  (Sally)
Yellow-rumped Warbler     15+
Northern Parula     heard
Nashville Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler     2 heard
CAPE MAY WARBLER     2   (Scot)
Double-crested Cormorant     4 flyby
Herring Gull     FOY  flyby
Red-tailed Hawk     flyby
Great Crested Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher     heard
Eastern Kingbird     2 flyby
Blue-headed Vireo
Eastern Wood-Pewee     heard
Red-eyed Vireo     heard
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW    3    FOY
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
European Starling
Scarlet Tanager     3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole

----Equitation Field
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5+
MAGNOLIA WARBLER
BLACKPOLL WARBLER     FOY  
American Redstart 
Barred Owl     2 adult 1 fledgeling 
Eastern Phoebe
American Robin     5+

----Ross Drive  (early AM listening)
Ovenbird     h
Black-throated Blue Warbler     h
Eastern Phoebe     s
Red-eyed Vireo     h
Great Crested Flycatcher     h
Acadian Flycatcher     h
Carolina Chickadee     h
Tufted Titmouse     h
White-breasted Nuthatch     h
Eastern Towhee     h
Brown-headed Cowbird     h

----Yard Parking Lot
MAGNOLIA WARBLER
Scarlet Tanager

-----Fence Line
Ovenbird     heard
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Wood Thrush     heard
Scarlet Tanager     3
American Goldfinch

-----Maintenance Yard
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5+
Black-throated Blue Warbler    4   (2 seen 2 heard)
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER     2
CAPE MAY WARBLER     I female
Common Yellowthroat
Black-and-white Warbler
Nashville Warbler      3  (2 seen, 1 heard)
Black-throated Green Warbler      
BLACKPOLL WARBLER      2  FOY  
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
Mourning Dove
WARBLING VIREO     FOY   (Sally)
Red-eyed Vireo     2
Tufted Titmouse
American Crow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin     3
LINCOLN SPARROW     FOY  (Scot)
Common Grackle

-----Stables Area
American Redstart
Carolina Wren

Observers:  Scot Loss, Bill Butler, Marjorie Rachlin, Jim Lemert, Sally W., Sharon Forsyth, Jim Boughton, Allen Johnston, Bella, Kathryn Kratzer, Sasha Litman, Elda Banks, John and Judy, Stephen Jones,++

Have Fun Birding!

Wallace Kornack
Washington  DC 

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