Tweets - we had a glorious morning for our first Thursday walk today. I
must say, I was twitchy yesterday morning being home instead of at Marymoor
as usual, but today was a good day to welcome in a new day of the week for
my Marymoor walks. There were FOURTEEN of us today. The morning broke
entirely cloudless, with some wisps of fog, especially over the eastern part
of Marymoor. We had a great sunrise - the kind that makes you feel
satisfied about the day before you even see your first bird.

We did see birds - the day had its slow moments, and there were notable
misses (i.e. almost no sparrows).

Highlights:

DUNLIN Four flew north over lake platform
Wilson's Snipe 1 flushed from boardwalk, 1 at Rowing Club
Barn Owl Matt had one early over the East Meadow
Anna's Hummingbird Male singing next to boardwalk
Pileated Woodpecker One flew south at the start of our walk
Northern Shrike Many looks at this nice adult
Western Meadowlark One north of grass soccer fields

When we were at the lake platform we were looking into the sun. So after
the walk, I went to the cabana at the condo place where I've gotten
permission for the occasional visit, so that I could see what we couldn't
see before. Sure enough, there were several HORNED GREBE, which we thought
we might have seen earlier. Also there, though, were a half-dozen RUDDY
DUCK - a very nice bird to see.

A COYOTE walked across the runway area of the model airplane field; we
watched from the Compost Piles.

For the day, ~55 species, though there were several species that we thought
was saw, but couldn't quite be sure. For the year, we're up to 74 species.

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