Tweets - it was 32 degrees, foggy and damp, and there was a slight breeze.
That kind of weather sucks the heat out of your core. Hours later, I'm
*still* cold. We had a really good day birding, though I missed some of the
best stuff.

Highlights:

Matt and Scott had an AMERICAN TREE SPARROW again. I think they saw it
around 7:30 a.m., and like last week, it was at the Compost Piles. We
couldn't really find ANY sparrows there when we passed the area at about
11:00.

Matt and Scott also had BARN OWLS early on.

A large flock of CACKLING and CANADA GEESE on the grass soccer fields also
contained one SNOW GOOSE and one GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE.

We had a decent day for ducks with AMERICAN WIGEON, MALLARD, RING-NECKED
DUCK (10 crowding the Rowing Club pond), GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON
GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, and COMMON MERGANSER. We thought we were
hearing some Green-winged Teal as well, and Brian may have seen some Gadwall
flying.

There as a fairly large flock of WESTERN GREBES out on the lake, visible
from the lake platform - perhaps 20 in all, though only a few were really
close enough to identify.

A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen in several locations in the Dog Meadow, East
Meadow, and the southeast portion of the park.

We flushed an owl near the windmill that was probably a GREAT HORNED OWL.

At the Rowing Club, we had distant views of a RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER.

For the day, we managed 59 species. Our year total grew to 73 species.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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