Tweets - it was cold, dark, and breezy this morning, though gradually the
clouds cleared as the wind picked up. Did I mention cold? Water levels are
still high too, so it didn't feel very spring-like to say the least. It was
fairly birdy, though it was a day when we didn't get a whole lot of great
long looks at birds. Sometimes we had long looks and sometimes we had great
looks, but rarely both. With the leaves fully out, we spent a lot of time
peering into trees at birds flitting about, revealing little about
themselves.

Still, there was plenty to see:

Wood Duck With 6 babies at Rowing Club
PEREGRINE FALCON 1 soaring high over Rowing Club
Belted Kingfisher Taking fish NE out of the park
Hairy Woodpecker Young look ready to fledge
W. Wood Pewee Finally. Had about 4. Our only flycatcher
Warbling Vireo Abundant, singing
Purple Martin Male at Rowing Club
Pacific Wren One singing SW of windmill early
G.-crowned Kinglet Adult feeding 4-5 young at RC
8 WARBLER DAY:
Orange-crowned Several, singing
NASHVILLE One in slough above weir,
One at S end of Dog Area
Yellow A few singing males
Yellow-rumped 1 female Myrtles, 1+ f Audubon's
B.-throated Gray Scott had 1 N of the mansion
Townsend's 1 N of the mansion
C. Yellowthroat Several, mostly just heard
Wilson's Most abundant of all
CHIPPING SPARROW 1 North of mansion
Dark-eyed Junco Adult feeding fledglings
Western Tanager A few glimpsed
LAZULI BUNTING Pair near 2nd dog swim beach
Bullock's Oriole At least 3 seen
Evening Grosbeak More flyovers

We also had LONG-TAILED WEASEL, in a cottonwood, kind of along the slough in
the Dog Area.

New for the year this week were the WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE, CHIPPING SPARROW,
and LAZULI BUNTING. Grace & Ollie Oliver had a SPOTTED SANDPIPER on Sunday.
Also, Tony Ernst sent me a photo he took of a HORNED GREBE back on April 23.
So I believe that brings the park year list up to 135 (unofficial :) )

For the day, 68 species. If I'm not mistaken, Gadwall, Northern Flicker,
and Steller's Jay were notable misses for the day. And still no Willow
Flycatchers.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
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