Subject: Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co., WA) 10/2/2002
Date: Oct 3 16:40:44 2002
From: Michael Hobbs - hummer at isomedia.com


Tweets - It was WET this morning, but six of us gathered a little after 7:00
to try our luck. Our luck got wetter. We did manage a few things, but
there were long periods when it was raining so hard that *nothing* was
around.

Highlights:

Green Heron One southeast of Rowing Club dock
Gr. Wh.-fronted Goose One with a 200 CAGO on grass soccer fields. Imm?
Northern Harrier Juvenile bird over East Meadow
Peregrine Falcon Flying towards lake south of East Meadow
Virginia Rail Heard one on slough near start of boardwalk
Killdeer About 75 on grass soccer fields
Common Snipe One over East Meadow
Ring-billed Gull About 10 on grass soccer fields
Lincoln's Sparrow Several in East Meadow
Brewer's Blackbird Ollie had a female in the Pea Patch gardens

I never wrote in last week, but I had an AMERICAN BITTERN on the slough near
the start of the boardwalk, we had a MERLIN over the north end of the East
Meadow and over near the model airplane field, a HAIRY WOODPECKER in the
cottonwoods north of the Interpretive Lot, and some PURPLE FINCH. I also
had the first WINTER WREN of fall last Friday.

41 species today. The bittern put us at 130 for the year. Maybe next week
will be drier.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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