Subject: [Tweeters] King/Sno birding
Date: Apr 8 20:34:20 2011
From: Tim Brennan - tsbrennan at hotmail.com



Hey Tweets,

Made a run up on Wednesday looking for a Mountain Bluebird at Marymoor (missed it), hoping for Ruffed Grouse at Carnation Marsh (none that I heard) and just wondering if there was still a Sandhill Crane south of Monroe (if there is, I didn't see it). Had an American Kestrel, Ring-necked Pheasant, and first of year Savannah Sparrows at Marymoor during a short stop to the Remote-controlled Aircraft Field. My stop at Carnation Marsh was a bit longer - there were Purple Finches and Ruby-crowned Kinglets singing, and lots of heard-only Rufous Hummingbirds and Virginia Rails. There was a lot of woodpecker activity along the road - Hairy, Downy, Pileated and Red-breasted Sapsucker were all busy in plain view - and at the end of the marsh a house with a feeder had 5-6 Band-tailed Pigeons, 2 Mourning Doves and 5 Steller's Jays. Nothing out of the ordinary on the Snohomish side - but the swallows are back (Tree and Violet-green here), and I did find a Peregrine Falcon on Tualco Loop Road.

Made it past 39 birds in the county for Snohomish for the year, making it my tenth! (I'll be trying to do this in all 39 counties this year to celebrate turning the big Three Nine).

Happy birding!

Tim Brennan, Renton
www.39counties.blogspot.com