Tweets - it was like old times today at Marymoor, as it was just Brian Bell
and myself for most of the walk. We were joined by Lillian when we got to
the East Meadow. It was cold (23 degrees) when we started, but it was above
freezing by the end. The park was gorgeous, covered in 1-2+ inches of snow,
and lit by the sun peeking out from the clouds (our shadows joined the walk
about half the time). It seemed fairly birdy, but a lack of gulls, owls
(nobody got there early to go owling), and a few other misses kept our
species count fairly low.

Highlights:

Gr. Wh.-fronted Goose 4 with a large flock of mostly Cacklers
TURKEY VULTURE One over the windmill at about 11, heading S
MERLIN One streaked south, W of the slough early
Red-breasted Sapsucker One DRUMMING east of the mansion
Hairy Woodpecker Female near the Rowing Club dock
Northern Shrike A couple of sightings, incl. in Dog Meadow
Golden-crowned Kinglets Ubiquitous
Townsend's Warbler Two beauties NE of the mansion - great show
Purple Finch Many sightings,
incl. a nice male at the park
office feeders

We also had a COYOTE south of the windmill at 7:30.

This is the first Marymoor record of TURKEY VULTURE in the winter. We have
multiple sightings as late as the first week in October, but nothing
previously before the 4th week of March.

For the day, just 50 species. Townsend's Warbler and Turkey Vulture were
new for the year.


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