Tweeters,

For those of you who do not know, Marymoor Park at the north end of Lake
Sammamish is a wonderful place to bird and observe other types of wildlife
as well. I took my son there once when he was seven and actually got him to
examine banana slugs (BASL) without him trying to squash them. A bird list
of 131 species shows how remarkable this park is.

Denny Granstrand
Yakima, WA

At 04:40 PM 2/5/97 -0800, you wrote:
>It was too nice an afternoon, so I went for a walk. Before I knew it, I
>had found a back way to Marymoor Park, so I did my loop there at a brisk
>pace before heading back to the office. While there, I saw a RED-NAPED
>SAPSUCKER, thus adding species #131 to my Marymoor list! The sapsucker
>was in the trees between the Clise Mansion and the dog-area parking lot.
>
>Belatedly, I'd like to add that last Thursday we added #130 when we had
>a wonderful sighting of a MERLIN. It was in the main dog-area meadow,
>and we saw it dive after something before disappearing. Several times
>before, I had thought I'd seen Merlin at the park, but this was the
>first time I was really sure of my identification.
>
>Everytime I think we've seen all there is to see at Marymoor, I come
>across a couple of new ones.
>
>
>== Michael Hobbs
>== Kirkland WA
>== mikeho at microsoft.com
>
>