[MDOsprey] Mall birds, Dec 8

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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

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