A quick walk around the Tidal Basin, DC Veteran's Monument and Constitution Gardens produced the following: Lots of Ring-billed Gulls and Canada Geese everywhere, plus At the Tidal Basin, a few Herring Gulls and fewer Greater Black-backed Gulls, several Double-crested Cormorants, and 2 Pied-billed Grebes. The area of the DC Veteran's Monument was strangely empty, other than a flock of a few dozen American Robins, and At Constitution Gardens, today's 'hot' spot, a Herring Gull and a Greater Black-backed Gull, a Great Blue Heron, a couple of Double-crested Cormorants, and a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos. Not a stellar day. A Cooper's Hawk has been hunting on the Mall this week, but I missed it today. In the last couple of weeks there has also been a Red-tailed Hawk on the Mall, but I haven't seen it this week (both of these are immatures). Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution irmss668@sivm.si.edu