Subject: Marymoor Park Report (King Co. WA) 10/7/99
Date: Oct 7 15:21:28 1999
From: Michael Hobbs - Hummer at isomedia.com


A dark and blustery day, with gusting 10-25 mph winds making for difficult
birding. Still, we had some good sightings:

Green Heron Flying up slough near RC dock
Green-winged Teal 1 near dock - first of fall
Mew Gull 1 with RBGUs - first of fall
Sharp-Shinned Hawk East meadow - first of fall
BLACK SWIFT 4 flying south over Rowing Club
Western Meadowlark 4 in East Meadow - first of fall

All told, a scant 35 species.

The BLACK SWIFTs were the first fall sightings I've ever had. Anywhere.


And especially for SCOTT DOWNES:

I arrived early and parked at the model R/C field to check for Short-eared Owl
in the East Meadow. Instead found around 1500 crows flying from just southwest
of the Bald Eagle nest at about 6:55 a.m. They all flew NW towards where SR520
crosses the Sammamish Slough. I couldn't be sure if the crows had been
roosting in the trees, or further to the SE (i.e. on the other side of East
Lake Samm. Pkwy). I *think* they were roosting in Marymoor.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== hummer at isomedia.com