It was "skedaddle day" when yesterday's birds all left overnight, obviously not much to see today. But in spite of that kind of day, it was one great bird ( or great birds for Kathy) that made my workday another good day.
Its been at least a year since I saw Yellow-breasted Chat ( maybe winter of 2012) , but just before my lunch hour started I decided to go up to Lookout Hill. There at the top of the Maryland Monument staircase, I ran into Kathy Toomey.While we were "chatting" :)> I spotted a bird fly into the fruited Paper Mulberry Tree. It was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT right out in the open ! It proceeded to the canopy of the tree, picking At the delectable fruits.There it stayed for 7 minutes I estimated before it flew to a nearby sycamore tree momentarily then over the brushy slope towards the south edge of Butterfly Meadow where we lost track of it.For this bird's furtive character , it was an eternity watching great looks of this bird. Kathy and I considered ourselves very lucky.
Also of note , from the previous post, the ORANGE ( or RED) BISHOP was feeding on grass seeds that it weighed down next to the puddle that you can see in my cell phone bad video shot.
Kathy reported BLUE-WINGED WARBLER right at the top of the Maryland Monument stairs.. ( before I arrived and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO near the bottom of the Lookout Hill stairs ( facing the cemetery)
--KB