Tweets ? The weather was great ? sunny with a few clouds, no wind, not too hot and not too cold. Dawn was pretty, including a great look at a crescent Venus just before the sky turned orange. But for birds, things were pretty quiet, especially if you didn?t count the ANNA?S HUMMINGBIRDS and BEWICK?S WRENS that were everywhere and noisy.

Highlights:

Common Merganser 16 young birds on weir
Green Heron 2 at lake, more sightings along slough
Cooper?s Hawk Juvenile, first seen hopping on lawn
Barn Owl 2 seen, last sighting 5:40
Vaux?s Swift 2-4 seen overhead
Belted Kingfisher Many sightings, at least 2 birds
- all five woodpeckers - Pileated heard-only to the west
Willow Flycatcher 3 seen, might have heard a couple more
Warbling Vireo 2 near 1st Dog Swim Beach
Cedar Waxwing First juveniles of the year noted
Orange-crowned Warbler 1-2 near Warbling Vireos
Black-thr. Gray Warbler Female south of heronry
Townsend?s Warbler 2 south of heronry
Lincoln?s Sparrow 3+ at Viewing Mound at 6:15 a.m., not seen later
Western Tanager 1 seen briefly at Pea Patch

We also had a COYOTE in the East Meadow early, and a MUSKRAT at the Rowing Club at the end of the morning.

For the day, 57 species.

== Michael Hobbs
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== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com