Hello Tweeters,
I got lucky at the Kite Hill parking lot on Sunday morning. I arrived at 10:30 am, sorted through the 75-100 robins in the trees and crabapples on the south and west of the lot, and saw two large round waxwings (silhouette only) in the bountiful crabapple on the south of the lot. I thought they looked much larger than cedar waxwings. Sure enough, they flew right to the tree top I was under, and gave me great extended views of their chestnut vents and white spotted wings. They were pretty in the sunlight. Wish I had a camera. I looked back to the crabapple, wondering if there were some more, and then went back to the treetop - and the two were gone. They did not call. They went west, toward the tennis courts.
I hung around until 11:30 am but the two Bohemians did not return. A flock of 11 calling cedar waxwings did show up and join the robins. The Bohemians were not mixed in with them.
Other birds of note during my brief stay were a male common goldeneye off the restroom beach, and a northern harrier flying south over the beach line.
Frank BrownNorth Seattle