Tweets - a late and abbreviated report, since I'm getting ready to do a King
County Big Day tomorrow, co-led with Matt Bartels.

Today at Marymoor was a really good day. The weather didn't quite live up
to the billing, as it was often cloudy, and almost started drizzling. The
birds were active.

Highlights:

A pair of COOPER'S HAWKS was seen near the mansion. She was still in
sub-adult plumage, while he was a nice-looking adult. Sharon tracked her
movements back to a nest, and we got to see her settled down in the nest.

Scott Ramos saw a SHORT-EARED OWL in the East Meadow early.

A PILEATED WOODPECKER was at the base of a six-inch, very lively-looking
willow at the very edge of the slough. The woodpecker was practically
standing in the mud, before hopping up the trunk and flying off across the
river. Weird.

Ryan Merrill heard a CASSIN'S VIREO at the south end of the dog area, which
eventually we got looks at. We also had one WARBLING VIREO.

We had at least 3 HERMIT THRUSH.

For warblers, we had 5+ ORANGE-CROWNEDS, at least 2 NASHVILLES, 100+
YELLOW-RUMPED, and quite a few WILSON'S WARBLERS, plus COMMON YELLOWTHROAT.

Along the boardwalk was a singing male BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK.

Ryan Merrill noted a BULLOCK'S ORIOLE which we watched fly north over the
Community Gardens. He also got us on a flying EVENING GROSBEAK.

Perhaps the strangest thing was after everyone else left. I went over to
the 187th Ave viewpoint on East Lake Samm Parkway where I was scoping the
north end of the lake, looking in vain for a reprise of the Purple Martin
I'd seen early, and also in vain for the CASPIAN TERN I saw yesterday. What
I did see, along the west side of the lake between the viewing platform and
the new dock was a SWAN. I was too far to get an ID, but I wonder if it was
the same swan that was seen at Juanita Bay Park a week or two ago.

For the day, 70 species.

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