Tweets - it was sunny, beautiful, and a frosty 27 degrees when we set out
this morning. It barely warmed over the course of the morning. The park is
much drier than it has been, but there are still significant closures. I
was able to make just about the whole loop, but since the first footbridge
is still closed, this meant going as far along the slough trail as possible,
then going over to the east trail, walking the whole boardwalk, and walking
back up the slough trail.

Nine of us had a pretty good day, though there was nothing earthshaking in
terms of rarities:

Red-breasted Sapsucker 1 or 2 NE of the boardwalk
Pileated Woodpecker In Oregon Ash forest NE of the boardwalk
Brown Creeper 2 heard SINGING, 1 seen at Rowing Club
Townsend's Warbler 1 southeast of the mansion
Lincoln's Sparrow At least 5 at Compost Piles, 1 in Snag Row
Western Meadowlark 4 in dog area and East Meadow, SINGING

Matt also glimpsed a swallow and heard what was probably an Anna's
Hummingbird briefly.

Lots of birds were singing, including Black-capped Chickadee, Brown Creeper,
Bewick's Wren, American Robin, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed
Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, and House Finch.
RED-TAILED HAWKS were circling around the odd-snag nest tree, and one landed
on it. And a Norhern Flicker was drumming.

For the day, 51 species.

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