I stopped at Marymoor this morning on my way into work between 6:30 and 6:50, and the ASH THROATED FLYCATCHER cooperated for a few minutes. He was not to be seen initially. Then the LAZULI BUNTING showed up on one of his normal spots on top of a blackberry tangle where he sat for about five minutes. The Eastern Kingbird apparently was still reading the morning paper enjoying a latte somewhere else, as he was not on his post. I packed up the scope and was heading out when I took one last scan with the binocs and the flycatcher appeared on top of another blackberry tangle, on one of the dead branches at the top. He was facing the parking lot, so the light colored underparts and brown/rufous tail were very obvious (the clouds helped a lot in this case - on a clear day one would have been looking into the early sun and would have seen only a silhouette). To see where he was this morning - walk past the barriers at the head of the Interpretive Trail about ten yards and scan!
to the
east on the tops of the blackberry tangles. From this vantage point, he was on a tangle that was just slightly south of the dirt piles.

John Tubbs
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