Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co., WA) 2008-07-10
Date: Jul 10 20:22:01 2008
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Tweets - glorious weather today, in marked contrast to last week. Started
out about 55 degrees and slowly warmed up, but with the sunshine it was very
pleasant. There were just a few thin, high clouds. Pretty quiet birdwise;
we've been lacking in surprises recently. But still lots of interesting
birds etc. to look at.

Highlights:

Wood Duck Inundated with ducklings of many sizes
Green Heron Saw a couple of adults and 3 babies
Osprey At least 1 pigeon-sized baby on the nest
Cooper's Hawk At least 2 fluffy young on the nest
Red-tailed Hawk Two fledged young perched, begging?
Caspian Tern Two flying high downstream before 6am
Barn Owl Matt had 1-2 early over East Meadow
Anna's Hummingbird Many (8+?) all over park
Rufous Hummingbird Not quite as many (5?)
R.-b. Sapsucker One near the Green Herons at Rowing Club
Downy Woodpecker A couple of fledged young with parents
Warbling Vireo The Rowing Club is THE place this year
Red-eyed Vireo At least 2 singing around the boardwalk
O.-crowned Warbler One heard again south of East Meadow
House Sparrow First one since April

All the baby raptors are great fun. The two RED-TAILED HAWKS were in an
alder snag across the slough, side by side, calling piteously. At the
COOPER'S HAWK nest, one young bird, all white fluff, but begining to get
flight feathers, sat boldly on the outer edge of the nest. There was more
white fluff moving down at the bottom of the nest. At the OSPREY platform,
it was hard to see the young. They apparently can still duck down out of
sight. But at one point it looked like there were two white fluffy heads,
and later I got a great look at one young bird.

We also had two RACCOONS on the far side of the slough, from Dog Central.

For the day, 57 species. For the year, we're at 135 species.

== Michael Hobbs
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