Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co., WA) 2006-06-21
Date: Jun 21 17:17:48 2006
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Tweets - it was an overcast, but otherwise fine, solstice at Marymoor today.
10 of us enjoyed some pretty nice birding. Lots of baby birds were around,
many in nests.

Highlights:

Wood Duck 5, all looking like probable juveniles
Green Heron Two juveniles seen along slough, adult at lake
D.-cr. Cormorant One on lake late - unusual at this time of year
Osprey Adult with 3 small chicks on nest platform
Red-tailed Hawk What looked like two nearly-fledged juveniles atop
the odd-snag nest
Caspian Tern 2 over lake
Rufous Hummingbird Several, including one astonishingly bright,
green-backed, rufous-rumped bird.
Hatch-year male?
Looked like the pictures of Allen's
Hummingbirds
Belted Kingfisher 3 birds; at least 1 juvenile?
Downy Woodpecker 1-2 red-capped juveniles seen
Northern Flicker Nest in snag near park office had 3 almost-fledged
young. Also saw at least 1 redXyellow
intergrade
with red moustaches and red nape
O.-sided Flycatcher Ollie Oliver heard one west of the entrance early
Tree Swallow Young heard inside decorative birdhouse in Pea Patch
Bewick's Wren One feeding a young bird
Spotted Towhee Juvenile near mansion
Song Sparrow One feeding a cowbird baby
Dark-eyed Junco Juveniles with adults near mansion
Bullock's Oriole Female feeding young at the nest at the Rowing Club
House Finch Many presumed young birds
American Goldfinch Female building nest in blackberries in Dog Meadow

We also had a SMALL GULL we were confused by. It looked and acted like a
BONAPARTE'S GULL, but it didn't appear to match any plumage for BOGU we
could find in the books. It appeared to have an "ear spot" like a winter
Boney, but no other black. That is, no black head, no black wingtips or
black trailing edge of wings or black outer primary, no black band on the
end of the tail, and no black carpal bars. We only got very distant looks
at this bird as it foraged well out on the lake. It was distinctly small;
dwarfed by the Caspian Terns. It flew like a gull, not like a tern, and it
went to the water like a gull after food, rather than diving like a tern.
It was primarily white, though it was not uniformly clean; it appeared
faintly brownish. It may have had outer primaries, as on some plumages of
BOGU. There may have been a hint of brownish carpal bars. Perhaps this is
a leucistic BOGU juvenile? If anyone gets near Lake Samm, they should look
for this gull...

For the day, 61 species

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