Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2018-02-15
Date: Thu Feb 15 16:52:09 PST 2018
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at frontier.com

Tweets -; A very nice morning today. Well pre-dawn, Mason and I scoped Saturn to the southeast; it's really showing its rings right now. And then we scoped Jupiter, fairly high to the south, and the four visible moons were lined up to the left. Very nice way to start the morning. The day continued well, with bits of sun, and temps rising into the 40's. And it was birdy, with much singing.

Highlights:
a.. Cackling Goose -; large flocks still around
b.. Western Grebe -; one not too far out from Lake Platform
c.. Green Heron -; one near Rowing Club dock, seen from Dog Area
d.. Sharp-shinned Hawk -; two sightings
e.. Barn Owl -; two seen, with great looks at one from Viewing Mound at 6:45am
f.. Hairy Woodpecker -; one across slough from Lake Platform
g.. TREE SWALLOW -; at least 3, first of 2018; earliest Marymoor record by a day
h.. Purple Finch -; three heard popping, seen briefly, Dog Meadow. First of 2018
i.. COMMON REDPOLL -; one heard, (and seen by me) in flight over Dog Meadow heading west
j.. Lincoln's Sparrow -; one seen pre-dawn and again on the walk (NOT by me) at Viewing Mound
k.. Yellow-rumped Warbler -; one at Rowing Club pond
Singing birds included Anna's Hummingbird (display flights too), Northern Flicker (drumming too), Black-capped Chickadee, Pacific Wren, Marsh Wren, Bewick's Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, Spotted Towhee, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, and Red-winged Blackbird. Ruby-crowned Kinglets were especially numerous today, though I only heard one sing.

in general, the number of birds of many species today was much higher than in recent weeks. But we picked up Western Grebe and Hairy Woodpecker at the Lake Platform, and didn't add another species to the day list until we were coming out of the Rowing Club; we got things early and often, but the species total wasn't huge.

For the day, 54 species, and adding Tree Swallow and Purple Finch puts us at 75 species for 2018. There was a River Otter seen briefly from the Lake Platform, new for the year.

== Michael Hobbs
== www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
== BirdMarymoor at frontier.com
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