Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2019-08-29
Date: Thu Aug 29 14:00:34 PDT 2019
From: Michael Hobbs - birdmarymoor at frontier.com

Tweets -; Pre-dawn was stunningly gorgeous. I was looking at the light on the clouds so much I almost didn't see the BOBCAT about 15 feet away. I went up to the Viewing Mound, and the bobcat sat calmly near the bins in the "compost piles" area, even climbing up onto the concrete bins. We watched each other for maybe as much as 15 minutes! By far my best looks at a bobcat ever. It acted like a kitten who didn't know exactly what it was doing. The rest of the morning was very pleasant, with quite a few birds we might not have predicted for the day. Huge group of birders today -; 19 I think.

Highlights:
a.. Greater White-fronted Goose -; third earliest fall sighting ever
b.. Ring-necked Pheasant -; Lonesome George II has gone silent, so we missed him the last two weeks, but today he was in the Pea Patch again
c.. Mourning Dove -; Second sighting of the year, one near Viewing Mound just before 6:30
d.. Green Heron -; at least three
e.. Hutton's Vireo -; one near park office -; New for 2019
f.. Purple Martin -; still a couple around
g.. Black-capped Chickadee -; especially numerous
h.. Red-winged Blackbird -; maybe 25, after a 4 week absence
Misses today included Hooded Merganser, Vaux's Swift, Marsh Wren, European Starling, Lincoln's Sparrow, and Wilson's Warbler. Not a great day for warblers, with Yellow Warbler not confirmed and Wilson's Warbler only maybe heard calling. But though we had at most 3 Orange-crowned Warblers, one was SINGING in the East Meadow. We also had several Black-throated Grays.

For the day, 56 species.

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