Tweets - we had nice weather, but it was very quiet today at Marymoor. A
few species were singing constantly: Willow Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee,
Bewick's and Marsh Wrens, Swainson's Thrush, and Common Yellowthroat, but
there wasn't a whole lot else. Even those species were not very easy to
see. Still, we walked the loop slowly and carefully, and managed to find
some birds.

Highlights:

Canada Goose Flight lessons for young birds
Cooper's Hawk Only our 2nd since April. With prey.
Barn Owl Matt had 4-5, including babies near the
windmill, early
Cassin's Vireo One singing, near dog swim beach 3
N. R.-winged Swallow 1-2 near grass soccer fields
Brewer's Blackbird 1 female on grass soccer fields
American Beaver 1 in slough at swim beach 3

The CANADA GEESE were learning to do the over-and-back half barrel roll used
to "dump air", allowing a quick drop in altitude. This was a family-sized
group, and there was no particular reason to be using that flight technique
where they were flying, which was fairly low over the weir.

We had both WARBLING VIREO and YELLOW WARBLER feeding BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS.

For the day, 56 species. BREWER'S BLACKBIRD appears to be new for our 2012
list.

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