Took advantage of a beautiful afternoon to check out the Hunting Creek
Bridge at low tide today (about 4:30pm). I was hoping to find some
Dunlins that are passing through after seeing Kurt Gaskill's report of
some at Riverside Park. Didn't see any there so I headed up to HC
Bridge. Sure enough - a nice close group of 14 were working the
mudflats along with a Lesser Yellowlegs and 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers
(isn't it rather late for the Semipalms?). A juvenile Cooper's Hawk
was having fun chasing some cowbirds around the parking lot under the
Wilson Bridge. Riverside Park was indeed still full of Grebes, Coots
and everything else Kurt reported from the other day.
Just before that I stopped by LBJ Grove (technically DC) and found a
bunch of Palm Warblers and a nice assortment of sparrows - white-
crowned, white-throated, swamp, and song.
Cheers,
Steve Hersey
Washington, DC
