Tweets - Maybe because of the threatening weather, we only had 8 people
today. For the most part, we didn't get that wet. Despite heavy overcast,
it mostly just drizzled lightly, and most of the time it was just cloudy.
We did get a minute or so of actual rain, but otherwise it wasn't too bad.

The park was absolutely FULL of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS - males and females,
Myrtle's and Audubon's, everywhere.

Other highlights:

Cackling Goose One flying around early
Barn Owl Matt heard one at 5:15 near the windmill
R.-breasted Sapsucker One drumming early near the mansion
Pac.-slope Flycatcher One, seen briefly, near first dog area bench
WESTERN KINGBIRD One at Compost Piles, last seen at model airplane field
Or.-crowned Warbler Many, some even visible
American Pipit 39 counted at model airplane field!
Savannah Sparrow Wow, there were a lot of these guys! 50-100
Fox Sparrow Mason found one still hanging around
Western Meadowlark 1 at model airplane field
Brewer's Blackbird 1-2 females seen

This is by far the latest spring date we've had for CACKLING GOOSE. We also
had a large flock of geese fly over the model airplane field that we just
couldn't figure out. Maybe just Canadas, but maybe Cackling...

Ollie spotted the WESTERN KINGBIRD at the compost piles on a mustard flower.
It dropped to the ground, and we were going to try for a closer look when it
flew up to a cherry tree at the east end of the piles, then flew all the way
over to the model airplane field. Ollie called Grace at work, and they
tried for the WEKI without success, but did find pipits at the airfield. So
the rest of us headed over there and found the Western Meadowlark instead.
Just as we were about to leave there, though, a huge flock of pipits flew
in. Brian counted 39 birds, and I think I got that number too. They were
on the very-closely-mowed runway.

We had 62 species on the day, despite missing Gadwall and Pied-billed Grebe.
The PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, and BREWER'S BLACKBIRD were
all new for the year, bringing the 2007 total to 110.

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