Hi Tweets -

Well we ran into the birder's bane today: wind. Until about 8:00, the wind was
only about 5 mph, but after that it steadily rose until it was probably blowing
20 mph with gusts to 30-35 mph. It made the birding rather tough to say the
least. Marymoor really shuts down when there's wind out of the southwest like
today.

We did see a few things:

Green Heron Beautiful adult across from dog swim area
Common Snipe Many sightings, incl. 2 at RC ponds
Bald Eagle Adult and subadult north of Marymoor

We seem to be in a pattern of having Green Heron every OTHER week.

We did have 5 BUFFLEHEAD at the Rowing Club pond, including two immaculate
males. But besting them was a drake HOODED MERGANSER in all his finery.

Oh - and there were two DEER between the East Meadow and the R/C flying field.

In all, 42 species of bird.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== Hummer at isomedia.com
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm