Tweets - we started out in rather heavy fog and cold weather, but the fog
mostly lifted by the time we got to the lake, and the sun sort of came out.
Remaining high overcast kept it from being sunny and warm like I'd hoped.
It was fairly birdy, and the fog hid us from the birds about as well as it
hid them from us; we got some great, close looks early on.

Highlights:

Virginia Rail "Song" at boardwalk (tock-te-dock)
Anna's Hummingbird At least 5 individuals
Belted Kingfisher Two - first of 2008
Red-breasted Sapsucker Great looks at Rowing Club
Hairy Woodpecker In large cottonwoods in dog area
Northern Shrike East edge of East Meadow
Tree Swallow 4+, East Meadow
Violet-green Swallow 4-6, Dog Meadow
Purple Finch 12+/- Great looks S of Dog Meadow

We also had a River Otter on the lake.

We had very few gulls today and very few cormorants. I could barely make
out one extremely far down the lake, verified later from the cabana.

Buffleheads were doing lots of courtship, crows were allopreening,
Ruby-crowned Kinglets were singing like mad.

The swallows and kingfisher were new for 2008. We had 57 species, with the
year list now at 79.

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