Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, WA) 2018-05-10
Date: Thu May 10 15:24:11 PDT 2018
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at frontier.com

Tweets -; An unexpected day at Marymoor today. Thankfully, the predicted rain held off, and we only had minor,intermittent sprinkles. There was a fair amount of activity, but no great push of migrants like I'd hoped. We did have several new arrivals, some on the early side, but great views of birds were scarce.

Highlights:
a.. Spotted Sandpiper -; one below weir
b.. Bald Eagle -; juveniles and adults hanging around weir all morning; ducks frightened
c.. WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE -; one or two, south end of Dog Meadow -; First of 2018
d.. SWAINSON'S THRUSH -; Matt heard several pre-dawn, we heard and some saw one, Dog Meadow. Calls only First of 2018
e.. Cedar Waxwing -; 3-4 flying over Dog Meadow. First since January
f.. EVENING GROSBEAK -; 1 or 2 flying over Dog Meadow. First of 2018
g.. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW -; one in Pea Patch -; LATE! First of 2018
h.. Orange-crowned Warbler -; heard only, 2-3
i.. Yellow Warbler -; one heard only, south end of East Meadow. First of 2018
j.. Wilson's Warbler -; notably abundant, singing, several seen
k.. Western Tanager -; 2-3 males
l.. Black-headed Grosbeak -; numerous singing males
m.. LAZULI BUNTING -; tight foraging flock of 3 males, Pea Patch. First of 2018
We've seen WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE as early as May 4, but May 10 is still the 6th earliest arrival date. The SWAINSON'S THRUSH is on the early side of normal arrival date. And this is the 3rd earliest we've ever had LAZULI BUNTING; earlier sightings were 2004-05-05 and 2015-05-07.

Conversely, this is definitely our latest spring date for WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. They are never common at Marymoor in spring (less than 40 records total for January-May). We've only had three April sightings, and our only previous May date was 1994-05-05. So that's only 5 sightings later than March 27th. Today's bird was drab and poorly marked.

So, only 60 species for the day, but six new species for the year, to bring our 2018 list to 128.

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



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