I pinch-hit for Michael Hobbs this morning on the Marymoor walk. It rained
for the
first hour and a half, mostly lightly but with a fairly heavy stretch in the
middle.
After that it turned into a pretty nice day, with mixed sunshine and clouds
and only
a light breeze.

I found 47 species, with no real headliners, but a few interesting things
including:

-- a northern rough-winged swallow in with a flock of violet-greens along
the slough
-- two orange crowned warblers (just south of the southern extreme of the
east meadow)
-- a female American kestrel, successfully taking a *tiny* rodent with a
medium-long
tail in the southern end of the east meadow
-- a Cooper's hawk (at a distance) flying across the slough toward the
hillside
-- two western meadowlarks in the east meadow
-- a common snipe in the marshy meadow on the south side of the road into
the rowing club



Jim McCoy
jfmccoy at earthlink.net
Redmond, WA