Tweets - it was a really weird day at Marymoor today. For weather, it
misted a bit at the start, but was mostly just darkly cloudy. We kept
joking about wanting to turn up the brightness (where's the remote???). It
also wasn't very birdy - REALLY QUIET. Well, sort of...

You see, while there weren't that many birds, and while we never did find
the mythical mixed flock of warblers, vireos, and tanagers that we felt
Connie Sidles had all-but-promised us, we ended up with a really high
species count. Lots of one-offs. And we did our best to scour the place.

Highlights:

Blue-winged Teal New for 2009,. 1 female at RC ponds
Green-winged Teal First of Fall, 2 at RC ponds
Green Heron 4+ juveniles, 1-2 adults
Glaucous-winged Gull FOF - a couple. Black tipped gulls too.
Barn Owl Matt & Scott had 2-3 early
Rufous Hummingbird Still 1-2 at the Community Gardens
Pileated Woodpecker 1 just south of the Dog Meadow
N. R.-winged Swallow 2 from Lake Platform
O.-crowned Warbler 2
Yellow Warbler 2 males, 1 female
B.-throated Gray W. 1 female at RC
Common Yellowthroat Abundant
Wilson's Warbler 1 male, 1 female
Western Tanager Heard near windmill
LAZULI BUNTING 1 male NE corner of Dog Meadow

There were many GREEN HERON sightings, including 4 youngish juveniles (still
with downy tufts here and there, though fledged) together along the
southeast edge of the Dog Meadow. We had a beautiful adult at the Rowing
Club ponds, and later a juvenile there. 5-8 birds total.

This is by far the latest we've ever had LAZULI BUNTING.

So for the day, an astounding 66 species! But that includes 3 heard-only
birds (Killdeer, Swainson's Thrush, Western Tanager), and over 20 species
represented by only 1 or 2 individuals

.== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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