Subject: Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co, WA) 9/24/2003
Date: Sep 25 23:27:58 2003
From: Michael Hobbs - hummer at isomedia.com


Tweets - sorry for the belated report. Thirteen of us birded in the fog
(and later in the sun) yesterday, and for hours there seemed to be no
birds at all. But by the end of a rather long go of it, we'd managed to
see quite a few birds and some interesting ones too.

WWe had a juvenile HORNED GREBE swimming down the slough from the lake
that allowed great looks at it passed. There were more grebes on the lake
which we could not identify - I went over afterwards and found a dozen
WESTERN GREBE on the lake.

Today, Houston Flores (a birder who works at Marymoor) sent me an email to
say he'd seen a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. I went over around noon and
found a juvenile GWFG with about 75 Canadas just inside the park.

We had more ducks this week - WOOD DUCK (3), GADWALL (2), MALLARD (10+),
GREEN-WINGED TEAL (1), HOODED MERGANSER (3, including 2 non-eclipse males,
at the Rowing Club), and COMMON MERGANSER (7).

My first highlight was seen poorly in the pre-dawn (6:35 am) darkness and
thick fog - a SHORT/LONG-EARED OWL at the south end of the model airplane
field. We also had the BARN OWL for a two owl day. While watching the
Barn, we had a great flock of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, GOLDEN-CROWNED
KINGLET, and CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE.

I heard one RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, the first of fall at Marymoor.

We had 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 2-3 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, 1 COMMON
YELLOWTHROAT, and we heard a WESTERN TANAGER.

We had an 8 sparrow day, including the first FOX SPARROW of fall (2+).

Besides the usual RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, we also had 2 female BREWER'S
BLACKBIRDS (only my 10th Marymoor record). One WESTERN MEADOWLARK landed
in one of the cottonwood snags.

For the day, 56 species were seen. For the week, 57 (adding the GWFG).
For the year, 126 species.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
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