Tweets - we were stunned and amazed to have gorgeous weather this morning.
It was clear at 7:00 a.m. and still pretty much clear when we finished after
noon. It was really birdy, too, with lots of great looks at common birds.
Not too many surprises, but a good day.

Highlights:

Cackling Goose Pure flock of ~200 minimas
Gadwall Pair in slough - First of Fall
Merlin? Quick look at a falcon
Northern Shrike Between Piles and airplane field
American Pipit One flew off from Compost Piles
Y.-rumped Warbler Missed the last 2 weeks
Townsend's Warbler One near windmill
Wh.-thr. Sparrow Tan-stripe near 2nd dog beach

American Robins and Dark-eyed Juncos were everywhere. We had particularly
nice looks at Fox Sparrows, Bewick's Wren, both Kinglets. Had all of the
usual suspects except Bushtit.

For the day, 59 species.

Yesterday, Marc Hoffmann photographed a TUNDRA SWAN at the north end of the
lake, as well as a WESTERN GREBE. Ollie Oliver had some COMMON MERGANSERS,
and on 11/1 a WOOD DUCK. On Halloween, Lillian Reis had BUSHTIT and a SNOW
GOOSE. So the week total is at least 65 species.

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