Subject: [Tweeters] Lake Sammamish State Park monthly bird walk -; 7/6/18
Date: Sat Jul 7 11:41:15 PDT 2018
From: Sharon Cormier-Aagaard - scormieraa001 at hotmail.com

Sharon and Stan were joined by 17 other birders on July 6, 2018 for Eastside Audubon's monthly bird walk at Lake Sammamish State Park. Weather was sunny 61-72F, 2-6 1-2 mph winds. The species count was 57 species, 125 for the year.

HIGHLIGHTS:
**A female Common Merganser successfully navigated potentially rough waters (comprised of several anchored power boats, and families with children playing on a nearby sandbar). She managed to lead the string of tiny Merganser-lings right through the center of it all, and onto calmer waters.
**A family(?) of 5 Spotted Sandpipers were bopping around a sandbar along Issaquah Creek.
**Two sightings of juvenile Red-breasted Sapsuckers, and an adult.
**3 vireo species, all 3 singing and 2 seen.... Hutton's, Red-eyed and Warbling
**A female with 2 young Black-throated Gray Warblers close up in Willow Trees at the Old Orchard was an unexpected surprise
**Good looks of a female Bullock's Oriole foraging low in Cottonwood leaves and branches.
**Only a few of us has a brief sighting of a distant, perched Western Kingbird.

The next bird walk is AUGUST 3, 2018, 6:30-11:30 am. This is a state park and a Discover Pass is required to park here ($35 annual or $10 daily)

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47037695

Sharon Aagaard
Bellevue, WA

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