Tweets - it was gray and intermittently drizzly today, but really not too
bad, though more than a touch dark. Birds came and went, but it wasn't
terribly birdy. We did have a good day for ducks: 8 species, which is good
at Marymoor.

Highlights:

Cackling Goose Maybe 1000 - awesome
Wood Duck Pair(?) flew up slough
Common Goldeneye All over the slough
Common Merganser At least 3 males
OSPREY 1 flew north from lake ~8:15
Barn Owl Early viewers had a couple of great looks
Hairy Woodpecker 1 near mansion
Pileated Woodpecker 1 at Rowing Club
Northern Shrike One north of fields 7-8-9
Purple Finch Some nice looks

This was our latest date for OSPREY, and just our 2nd December sighting
ever. Previous late dates: 2007-12-06, 2003-11-26, 2005-11-02. We've
also had 4 October sightings.

There were also 2-4 RIVER OTTERS on the lake.

For the day, 55 species.

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