Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co., WA) 2009-12-10
Date: Dec 10 17:15:12 2009
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at verizon.net


Tweets - what a frosty gem of a day. It was only TEN DEGREES at 8AM, but
the sun was shining, there was no fog except the merest wisps over the
slough, and it was windless. We were "shakin' our little HOTTiES" to stay
warm, but the sun and the abundant birds helped too.

It seemed there were birds everywhere for most of the morning. Nothing
terribly rare, but, for example, the first grove of trees we passed had
about 20 Dark-eyed Juncos, a good-sized handful of Chestnut-backed
Chicadees, a few Black-capped Chickadees, fluttering Golden-crowned Kinglets
with at least one Ruby-crowned, two Red-breasted Nuthatches, a Brown
Creeper, and a Bewick's Wren. And that was just the first grove of trees!

Sparrows galore. Five woodpecker species, four finch species, thirteen
species of ducks and geese...

Highlights:

Wood Duck 3 brief sightings amongst us
MERLIN Very dark bird landed in Snag Row
Virginia Rail SEEN from the lake platform
Townsend's Warbler One near mansion

Lynne surprised us by delivering hot cocoa and cinnamon-raisin bread at
about noon. Thanks, Lynne!

After we were done, I decided to walk from the model airplane field out
across the Connector Trail and down the East Lake Sammamish Trail to the
lake viewpoint at 187th Ave. Along the way I found:

Dark-eyed Junco Leucistic bird with white head
California Quail Near Redmond Storage
Winter Wren Ticking along the trail
House Sparrow Near 187th - no reports since Oct.

On the lake were more Wood Ducks, some Common Merganser, and one Bufflehead.

Surprisingly, we couldn't turn up any Mew Gulls, owls, kingfisher, or
shrike. But that was about all we missed.

Between the main walk and my jaunt down the trail, the total tally was 61
species!

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