Note: Trip postponed to Sunday, April 22.

RSVP to trip leader Dhananjaya Katju (202-557-6892) or use the field trip contact form [0].

Celebrate National Parks Week [1] with a field trip to a national park close to home - Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, along the east bank of the Anacostia in NE DC. KAG has lily ponds, restored marsh with a boardwalk, a woodland river trail and a visitor center. We can expect a good selection of resident and early spring land and water birds. Kenilworth Park, just south of the Aquatic Gardens, has meadows, playing fields, and edge areas that may produce migrating land birds.

We will gather in the parking lot at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens between 7:30 and 7:45 am. Those needing to arrange a ride should contact the trip leader as soon as possible.

Directions from most DC points: take New York Ave. east. Just after crossing the Anacostia River (before the road becomes the B-W Pkwy.), right exit to 295 south (Kenilworth Ave. south), and you will almost immediately see a brown sign for KAG. Follow the signs, exiting right onto the Kenilworth Ave. frontage road, turning right on Douglass Avenue, and right on Anacostia Ave. to the parking lot entrance. From downtown, SE, or SW, you can take Independence or Constitution Aves. east past RFK Stadium, over the Whitney Young Bridge, and exit right to 295 at the end of the bridge. Bear left on the ramp to Kenilworth Ave. north, and take the fourth exit, Quarles Street. Bear left and complete the U-turn onto Kenilworth Ave. frontage road. Go one long block to Douglass Street. This route is also signed for KAG. Metrobus (not rail) is also possible, ending with the V-2 bus from Deanwood station to Douglass Street.