April 11, 1964, Little Falls Park, Mass.AV. to MacArthur Blvd. Bethesda, Md. 10-1llOa.m. Mourning Doves Yellow-shafted Flicker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jays C. Crows Carolina Chickadees Tufted Titmouse Mockingbirds Robin Cedar Waxwings Starlings Orange-crowned Warbler House Sparrow C. Grackle Brown-headed Cowbirds Cardinals, paired, and mostly on the ground in the brush Purple Finch Common Goldfinch flocks Rufous-sided Towhee Slate-colored Juncos Chipping Sparrows White-throated & Song Sparrows 2838 April 12, 1964, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Washington D.C. R @ Avon Place. 8l0-930 a.m. Bobwhite - 2 Herring Gull Mourning Dove Yellow-shafted Flicker Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Blue Jays Common Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Mockingbirds Robins Starlings House Sparrow Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Cardinals Common Goldfinch flocks-no full yelIows Rufous-sided Towhees Slate-colored Junco White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow 2839 April 12, 1964, Potomac R. at Seneca, Montgomery Co. Md. 12-2 p.m. Eared Grebe-full plumage Pied-billed Grebe Herring Gull Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Yellow-shafted Flicker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-breasted Sapsucker Barn Swallows - 12's Blue Jays Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Robin Cedar Waxwings Starlings House Sparrow Common Grackles Common Goldfinches on buds White-throated Sparrows Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow 2840 April 18, 1964, Hunting Creek Marsh between Mt.Vernon Parkway and USl, S of USh95. 60-65OF, 615-7:30 a.m. EST. Clear, calm. w/ Gale Monson Alex.Virginia Black Duck - 3 Green-winged Teal - 2 Blue-winged Teal - 6 Ptintail - 2 Greater Scaup - 5 Bobwhite - 5 Killdeer Common Snipe - 2 Chimney Swift - several Yellow-shafted Flicker Barn Swallows Blue Jays Fish Crows Carolina Wren Carolina Chickadee Mockingbirds Cowbirds Cardinals Common Goldfinches Song Sparrow 2841 **Ruff** - Philomachus pugnax - 1 "winter plumage" brown specimens with Gr. & L. Yellowlegs, etc. On open tidal mud flats, and feeding in shallow water, and more or less aloof from yellow-legs. Also spent much time in short vegetation, preening, and saw it stretch both wings in upward "V" once, showing dark areas underneath. Flushed by plane. Spotted Sandpipers Greater Yellowlegs - several Lesser Yellowlegs - quite a few Dowitcher, long billls?? Ring-billed Gulls Laughing Gull - 1 adult Mourning Dove Robins Cedar Waxwings Starlings E. Meadowlarks Redwings Rusty Blackbird Common Grackles Least or Semi-palmated Sandpipers? ? ? 2842 April 18, 1964, Monsons, upperAccotink, Springfield, Virginia, 7:50-8:30 EST. Warm, calm. Mallards - 3 M's Broadwinged Hawk - 1 over Killdeer Mourning Doves Yel-shaft Flicker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jays - 5 in flight Common Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse House Wren Brown Thrasher - 2 Mockingbird, E. Robins Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Cedar Waxwings Starlings White-eyed Vireo-1 Purple Finch-LM House Sparrow E. Meadowlark Redwings Cowbirds Grackles Cardinals Evening Grosbeaks Purple Finch-LM Common Goldfinch Spotted Towhee Slate-color Junco Chipping Sparrows White-thrtd Sp. Song Sparrows 2843