Tweets - it was a good day at Marymoor today. We managed to ferret out quite
a few species, including several good birds. Great looks were sometimes
lacking, but that's the way birding is sometimes.

The day was overcast, and we had a couple of moments of heavy mist or light
rain, but generally the weather was quite good. There were eleven birders
all told.

Highlights:

Horned Grebe Two out on the lake
Western Grebe Two out on the lake
D.-crested Cormorant Two out on the lake
Green Heron Nice adult at Rowing Club
Northern Harrier Flyover at lake, later in East Meadow
Cooper's Hawk 2 juveniles at Compost Piles, adult at Pea Patch
American Kestrel 1 flying down the river early
Spotted Sandpiper On slough from Rowing Club late
Wilson's Snipe One at RC pond, one over slough earlier
Vaux's Swift Several, but these should be our last of the
year
Pileated Woodpecker Heard calling several times; only Mason saw one
HORNED LARK Three landed at east edge of grass soccer fields
Evening Grosbeak Two distantly glimpsed, near the mansion

Around 6:30 a.m., Matt Bartells had a fly-over COMMON NIGHTHAWK. This is
the fourth nighthawk noted over Marymoor, and all have been during Week 38:
9/17/04, 9/18/05, 9/20/05, and now 9/20/07. Pretty consistant!

The three HORNED LARK landed on the logs at the east edge of fields 7-8-9,
right next to the driveway to the Interpretive Lot. We got decent looks,
before they flushed out of there when one of the juvenile COOPER'S HAWKS
came through. They appeared to be completely devoid of yellow coloration -
does that make them Arctic birds?

We had both HERMIT THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH. They don't usually overlap
much, as we usually don't get Hermits until October, just after the
Swainson's leave. But we've had some September Hermits this year.

We had a six warbler day, with MANY ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, one YELLOW, a
handful of YELLOW-RUMPED, a single BLACK-THROATED GRAY with a single
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER northeast of the mansion, and a few COMMON YELLOWTHROATS.

First of Fall FOX and GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROWS.

For the day, 65 species.

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