Tweets - I think there were 15 birders total, and we enjoyed a fun day under
mostly cloudy skies. The weather was really quite nice until late when the
wind picked up a bit. It was pretty birdy, but there were many birds seen
only by one or two people. Sometimes things just work out that way.

Highlights:

Hooded Merganser Copulating in the slough
Bald Eagle Pair at new nest
Barn Owl Tom had good looks at about 6:10 a.m.
Red-breasted Sapsucker I had one drumming at the mansion early
Pileated Woodpecker One flyover
Cliff Swallow 1-2 over the lake
Bushtit Building a nest near the Rowing Club
Varied Thrush I heard several near the entrance early
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 singing, which we worked hard to see
Common Yellowthroat Actually got to see a couple
AM. TREE SPARROW Very active bird at Compost Piles

The AMERICAN TREE SPARROW was glimpsed a couple of times at the northeast
corner of the compost piles. It disappeared to the north, but later flew to
the south side of the dirt piles. Nobody got very good looks at it until it
landed at Matt's feet, then hopped to an exposed area where we could all see
it for a minute. Then it flew back to the northeast again. Very active,
and perhaps that indicates it won't stick around. This is just our 3rd
Marymoor ATSP sighting.

We had several frustrating sightings. Three times (at least) we had
hummingbirds that we couldn't identify. Finally we saw a male ANNA'S
perched at it's usual spot south of the windmill. The Rowing Club yielded
our only sure RUFOUS sighting for the day. We had 2+ sightings of
accipiters, the last almost certainly an adult COOPER'S HAWK. We also had
one sighting from the boardwalk that may well have been a MERLIN. Matt had
some black wing-tipped gulls that might have been CALIFORNIA.

And then the were the PURPLE FINCH and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER "sightings"
that were difficult, though-the-trees looks not shared by all.

In any case, a long list of 65-67 species, with CLIFF SWALLOW and AMERICAN
TREE SPARROW being new for the 2007 list.

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