Welcome!

Submitted by John Beetham on Tue, 09/19/2006 - 10:05pm.

If you are a regular visitor to our website, you may have noticed that this site has undergone major changes in the last week. We felt it necessary to redevelop our website to take advantage of new technologies, to provide more timely information to our members, and to enable members to contribute more easily.

All of the old content is still here, though it is presented slightly differently. In addition the site has several new features:

  • Sightings from past field trips are now stored in a database, which generates the 200 Species Goal list for each year and individual lists for each trip.
  • Our page on birding around DC is now generated from a database of birding locations. This same database provides the locations and directions for upcoming field trips.
  • Announcements for upcoming field trips now include links with directions to the carpool site and destination. These can be found in boxes on the right-hand side of the screen. Directions include a link to a Google Map of the site.
  • A new event calendar lists upcoming field trips, board meetings, and other events, all in one place.
  • Our blog, formerly hosted at dcaudubon.blogspot.com, is now integrated into our website. Old blog posts can still be found at that site, but new posts will appear here.
  • We now have an image gallery, which will include images from our blogs and articles, as well as past field trips. Images from field trips can be browsed by location.

Over the next few weeks we will add more articles and complete the uploading of old images to the new site. In the meantime, browse around the site and explore the changes.

For those who are interested, our site is powered by drupal, with custom programming for its unique features. Thanks to Steve Ringwood of Nevets Software for developing the site.

Thanks also to our members who provide the financial support to make projects like this possible.


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Hyattsville, Magruda Park & river bank - notes from a UK birder

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 10/15/2006 - 6:49am.
Just spent a week (6th -13th October) visiting friends with my family. I managed to get 1 or 2 hours every morning in Magruda Park and along the river bank. All in all, I saw 73 species, most of which were seen in the Magruda Park area. Fabulous birding! Pied billed grebe, black vulture, bald eagle, red shouldered hawk, belted kingfisher, brown creeper, red-eyed and blue headed vireos*, brown creeper, the usual 4 woodpeckers, both kinglets, eastern bluebird, brown thrasher, yellow-rumped and palm warblers, northern parula*, magnolia warbler, black throated blue warbler*, American redstart, eastern towhee among many other birds. * marked birds, first seen by a local birder - many thanks :-) National Arboretum produced black throated green warbler but even more exciting for me was a meadowlark flying into the fields just next to the Columns. Veery and Carolina wren in Rock Creek Park near Peirce Mill. Caspian tern on the Tidal Basin and a superb Cape May warbler by the Ranger's Station near the Washington Monument. Yellowthroats in the shrubs outside the White House and National Art Gallery (east building). And the icing on the cake? A pileated woodpecker flying across the road between woods on our way to BWI airport. What a place!
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