Gene and Tweets-

Brewer's Sparrow is definitely new for the Marymoor List! Great find, Gene. I
will try to find it tomorrow.

I have seen Western Kingbird four times at Marymoor:

27-Apr-95
06-May-99 2 birds
12-May-94
21-May-99 2 birds

Gene's sighting solidifies the early end of the range of spring migration
sightings (that is, it makes the 4/27 date seem less unusual).

The Brewer's Sparrow sighting brings to mind my sighting of a Sage Sparrow at
Lake Samm State Park last spring. I guess it really points out that just about
any "Eastern Washington" bird can show up westside too. Other birds I've seen
at Marymoor in the spring are Mountain Bluebird, Say's Phoebe, Eastern
Kingbird, Townsend's Solitaire, MacGillivray's Warbler, Nashville Warbler,
Western Meadowlark, Mourning Dove, and Vesper Sparrow.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: <ENHunn at aol.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 3:33 PM
Subject: Brewer's Sparrow at Marymoor Park


> Hello tweets,
>
> About noon today, Saturday, Apr. 29, at Marymoor Park near Redmond I heard a
> Brewer's Sparrow singing (a complex of buzzy trills) and subsequently
> observed it (small, longish tailed sparrow with a clear tan breast, very
> plain face, plain brown cap finely streaked darker) at close range. I heard
> it from the paved walk that heads south toward the lake from the east side of
> the dog exercise area between observation points #2 and #3 (marked with small
> green tags on posts). It was at the edge of the meadow about 50 m east of the
> path at that point. An informal trail leaves the paved path at observation
> point #3. Follow this along the edge of the meadow about 100 m to where the
> brush opens up to the east. That's where it was. There was a Western Kingbird
> at the same location. This is my first for this species for King County and
> Western Washington, but it is right on schedule for a displaced northbound
> migrant.
>
> Gene Hunn, ENHunn at aol.com
>