Tweets - the weather was fairly cooperative this morning. Broken overcast,
a bit of a breeze, and still unseasonably cool, but not cold today. And no
precipitation (yay). Water levels are really high for June, with part of
the boardwalk flooded! Normally we're heading down into dry times by now,
but not this year. Not too terribly birdy today, and migration is almost
over. But summer birds are here and nesting.

Highlights:

No Canada Geese

Green Heron A couple of flybys
Osprey At least 4, seen in one kettle
Bald Eagle High numbers remain - 10+
BLACK SWIFT Maybe 35 all morning, most to the east
Downy Woodpecker Female feeding baby at the nest
Pileated Woodpecker 1 near Rowing Club dock
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1 in Big Cottonwood Forest
American Crow Fledgling near park office
Black-capped Chickadee Fledglings being fed
Golden-crowned Kinglet Fledglings gadding about
Cedar Waxwing Lots, incl. a pair passing a berry
Wilson's Warbler Still a couple around
Western Tanager Glimpses of a couple
LAZULI BUNTING Male at Compost Piles - FOS
Evening Grosbeak Heard overhead a few times

The snag in Snag Row that has had a CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEE nest in it
this spring fell over sometime between last Thursday and today, smashing the
split-rail fencing. Young were being fed last week - let's hope they
fledged before the tree came down.

Also seen - MULE DEER (or Black-tailed Deer) in the early morning. A COYOTE
went into the Dog Meadow from the east at around 9:30. There was a dead
(maybe juvenile) LONG-TAILED WEASEL on a wood chip pile in the East Meadow.
One pile over had a dead TOWNSEND'S MOLE. And lots and lots of MOSQUITOES.

For the day, 63 species. Lazuli Bunting was the only new species for the
year.

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