Hi all, 

Thought today might be a good morning to visit Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and adjacent Park to see if the two days of rain brought in anything. Unfortunately, in a word, not. Migrants were nonexistent and even regular breeders very scarce this year. For example, the first year in a decade there has not been a Warbling Vireo breeding along the boardwalk at KAG. No sign of any Swamp Sparrows either, and only one (!!) Yellow Warbler. Other warblers included three Common Yellowthroats in KAG, two Parulas (none of these seen, btw). Singing Orchard Orioles, Eastern Phoebe, Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Indigo Bunting and a few Red-eyes were about the most interesting at KAG. Kenilworth Park was also quiet, a couple of Buntings, Kingbird, a single Yellowthroat and a distant heard-only BLUE GROSBEAK (behind the jersey barrier). We did not hear Jason Berry's Chat nor were there any signs of the usual Willow Flycatchers there. Two GREAT EGRETS on the river were interesting (and first for us in DC this year), and finally, a Warbling Vireo singing across from the Park along the river's edge. 

However it is clear that migration, such as it was, appears over and a very disappointing if not worrisome one it has been... 

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper 
Colesville, MD 



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