Tweets - it was a pretty quiet day at Marymoor today - frosty, with high
overcast, and some thin ground fog early. Not the warm spring day we had
yesterday. There were very few birds that gave us good looks - much of what
we did see was very distant.

The AMERICAN TREE SPARROW remains active around the Compost Piles, even with
road graders reworking the parking lot and a front-end loader pushing
branches around the piles themselves.

Other highlights:

Bewick's Wren, American Robin, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, and
House Finch all singing.

I had a BARN OWL flying around the main park road at around 7:00. The male
COOPER'S HAWK was seen in Snag Row several times.

Had some good looks at PURPLE FINCH just south of Dog Central. DOWNY
WOODPECKERS and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS also showed themselves well.

We had a very distant look at the NORTHERN SHRIKE, today perched at the far
side of the model airplane field.

An ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD was on one of his usual perches near the picnic
shelter south of the windmill.

Really, except for the ATSP, there wasn't much of note. Still, it beats
sitting at home.

OH - we did have a COYOTE at the southeast part of the East Meadow - our
first for 2009.

For the morning, 50 species.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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