Subject: [Tweeters] Magnuson Park (King Co., WA) highlights this morning
Date: Apr 21 12:45:00 2011
From: Evan Houston - evanghouston at yahoo.com


Hi Tweeters, ?

Though there was nothing chase-worthy, I had an enjoyable morning walk at Magnuson Park this morning, with good diversity, albeit not in high numbers of individual species in the stiff breeze. ?Highlights:

- American x Eurasian Green-winged Teal intergrade - I refound this bird Scott Ramos found a few days ago in the manmade wetland area
documenting pic here:?http://tinyurl.com/3bbd8az
- Common Loon - 1 at close range in full breeding plumage in Pontiac Bay
- waterfowl and grebe numbers way down - only 1 Red-necked Grebe, and no sign of the 18 Red-breasted Mergansers I saw or the 28 Horned and 1 Eared Grebe Scott Ramos saw in the past week?
- Merlin - 1
- singles of Dunlin (swim platform), Spotted Sandpiper (swim beach),?Wilson's Snipe, and Killdeer
- 4 Columbids: single flyovers of Eurasian-Collared Dove and Band-tailed Pigeon, and 1 Mourning Dove by the submarine fins
- American Pipit - at least 1 flying about the fields, maybe more
- Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 singing
- Golden-crowned Sparrow - fantastic breeding plumage
- 69 species total.

Good birding,
Evan Houston
Seattle, WA