Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!sun13!fsu!sandee From: sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: HOTLINE : D.C. area, 5/30 Message-ID: <852@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 31 May 90 18:57:50 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Florida State University Lines: 89 Date: Thu, 31 May 90 08:55:22 EDT Reply-To: National Birding Hotline Cooperative Sender: National Birding Hotline Cooperative From: "Norman C. Saunders" Subject: DC-Area, 5/30/90 To: Daan Sandee Status: R The Voice of the Naturalist a transcript of the tape prepared on Wednesday, May 30, at 4:00 pm ************************************ Highlights of this week's tape include FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK, CURLEW SANDPIPER, OLIVE-SIDED and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, and many MOURNING WARBLERS. The 3 FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCKS have been seen off and on through Saturday at Bombay Hook NWR. On the 27th they were in the creek across from Raymond Pool but they were not seen this morning. Heavy rains yesterday on the coast filled impoundments from Bombay Hook NWR to Chincoteague NWR. The last 2 of the 35 BLACK-NECKED STILTS at Bombay Hook NWR on the 24th were on an island in Bear Swamp this morning. The creek and shoreline at Port Mahon, east of Little Creek, DE, are still jumping with birds feeding on the horseshoe crab eggs, and the CURLEW SANDPIPER was seen there around 4:00 yesterday afternoon. The OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was still present at Pennyfield Lock on the 27th, and an ALDER FLYCATCHER was heard and seen on the 25th along the C&O Canal, between Monocacy Aqueduct and Nolans Ferry, in Frederick County. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was banded in Alexandria on the 28th. A wave of MOURNING WARBLERS included one on Roosevelt Island, another in Glen Carlyn Park, and a third at Sligo Creek Park on the 27th, and one at Mid-Patuxent Environmental Area in Howard County, and one at Cape May on the 28th. Several other migrant warbler species were seen at various places, mostly BLACKBURNIAN, CANADA, and especially BLACKPOLL. If you cannot locate the nesting CERULEANS at Riverbend and Great Falls Parks in Virginia, you may be willing to drive to Thompson WMA, near Linden, VA, where 5 males were on territory and easily seen on the 27th. >From the beltway, go west 55 miles to the Linden Exit. Turn east on Rt. 55, 1-1/2 miles to 638 in Linden and north 6 miles to the wildlife area. Park in parking area #7 and continue straight ahead on foot, on the rough trail, where all the CERULEANS are. Those who went out on the pelagic trip out of Virginia Beach last week were rewarded with SOOTY, CORY'S, and MANX SHEARWATERS, WILSON'S and LEACH'S STORM-PETRELS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and a long list of interesting fish and sea mammals. On shore, a first-summer GLAUCOUS GULL and an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL were at Rudee Inlet, and 4 BLACK-NECKED STILTS were at Back Bay NWR on the 26th. Closer to home, interesting inland water birds include a CATTLE EGRET on the 27th along New Design Road in Frederick County, perhaps a first for that county, a COMMON MOORHEN at Lilypons on the 28th, along with the resident LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE and 3-4 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS as well as an AMERICAN PIPIT at Hains Point on the 27th, 5 BLACK TERNS along the Shenandoah on the 27th, and a COMMON TERN at the pond at Dulles Airport on the 29th. Two UPLAND SANDPIPERS were seen near Lucketts, in Loudoun County, VA, on the 27th at the junction of Rts. 658 and 662, 1/2-mile northeast of the Presbyterian Church. ************************************ On Sunday, May 3, an all-day trip to Shenandoah NP will be led by Bill Murphy. You must make reservations with him at 474-1880. ************************************ The Voice of the Naturalist is a weekly service of the Audubon Natural- ist Society of the Central Atlantic States, and is summarized here with their permission. Call the tape directly at (301) 652-1088. To report bird sightings, call the ANS at 652-9188 or 652-5964 from 9-5, Monday through Friday. This printed summary is provided as a service of The Osprey's Nest, a computerized bulletin board run for birders by birders in the Washing- ton, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The Osprey's Nest may be reached at (301) 989-9036, in Colesville, MD. Your communications parameters should be set for 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. Good Birding!