Hi Tweets,

Stan and I were joined by 8 others this morning (Monday) for our monthly walk at Lake Sammamish State Park. At 8 am it was a cool and cloudy "spring" morning, with very light winds and temps in the low 40s. The birds were singing, displaying and foraging the first couple of hours in decent birding weather. Then, around 11 am, the sky darkened, opened up and just drenched us, with some light hail to boot. Brrrrrr. The highlight for me was seeing 3 GREEN HERONS flying about in the larger trees between the two beaches and making their "SKEOW" call....I presume 2 males chasing/courting a female. It was also nice to see the AMERICAN PIPITS back for a brief while. All in all, it was another great half day of birding at LSSP, followed by lunch at nearby Rock 'n Roll Burger in Issaquah.
51 species for the day, 89 for the year (6 total park visits).

Canada Goose 10
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 20
Mallard 12
Lesser Scaup 3
Bufflehead 7
Common Merganser 1
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Western Grebe 60
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 60 a rough estimate of birds seen in the nesting trees
Green Heron 3 Most likely two guys chasing a girl through the trees in the forest area between the two beaches, making their "common call in flight an explosive, sharp swallowed SKEEW or SKEOW" (Sibley).
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Western) 3
American Coot 10
Killdeer 2
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 1 Perched; very wet and bedraggled looking
Rufous Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 3
Pileated Woodpecker 2 Presumably a pair
American Crow 20
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Tree Swallow 2
Violet-green Swallow 60
Black-capped Chickadee 24
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 3
Bushtit (Pacific) 8 All seen in pairs; we weren't fortunate to see a nest
Brown Creeper 6
Bewick's Wren 10 Mostly heard only
Pacific Wren 3 Mostly heard only with a brief glimpse of one bird
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10
American Robin 50
European Starling 4
American Pipit 7 1 at the lake and the others flew in, landed and began foraging along the edges of Tibbits Creek
Yellow-rumped Warbler 40 Heard only
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 10
Common Yellowthroat 2 mostly heard with a brief glimpse of one bird
Spotted Towhee (Pacific) 2 heard only
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 12
White-crowned Sparrow (Puget Sound) 1 heard only
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) 2
Red-winged Blackbird 1 heard only
Purple Finch (Western) 6 mostly heard only
American Goldfinch 4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Sharon Aagaard
Bellevue WA
scormieraa001 at hotmail.com