Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park Report (Redmond, King Co., WA) 2012-03-01
Date: Mar 1 15:01:44 2012
From: Michael Hobbs - BirdMarymoor at frontier.com


Tweets - it misted a bit, and there was an occasional stiff cold breeze, but
otherwise the weather was okay. Everybody was pretty excited to look for
the BOHEMIAN WAXWING, first seen on Tuesday, and that lead to us scurrying
back and forth chasing waxwing flocks. When we finally got to the tree
where I saw the bird on Tuesday, voila - there it was, amongst 50 or so
Cedar Waxwings. The rest of the day was pretty good too.

Highlights:

Northern Pintail Pair in slough below weir
MERLIN One landed in a fir near the mansion
Virginia Rail Matt heard rail(s) from the boardwalk
early
Great Horned Owl Matt heard one near the mansion early
Red-breasted Sapsucker One near the graffitied picnic shelter
Northern Shrike As usual, north of field 7, then in Snag Row
Varied Thrush Heard near windmill
BOHEMIAN WAXWING Again, 100 yds. south of Dog Central
Cedar Waxwing 100+ birds - very notable numbers
Yellow-rumped Warbler Aud. & Myrt. types

Not very many ducks, gulls, or sparrows today, which kept the day list down,
though we still managed 56 species.

Ollie Oliver had a BAND-TAILED PIGEON on 2012-02-27, new for the year list.
That, plus the Bohemian, brings the year list to 85 species.

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