Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2021-02-25
Date: Thu Feb 25 12:33:27 PST 2021
From: birdmarymoor at gmail.com - birdmarymoor at gmail.com

Tweets -; Gray, a bit blustery to start, and little bits of mist and mizzle early, but not too bad. Sometimes felt quite birdy for February. The most notable thing was the amount of singing, and the large number of species singing.

Highlights:
a.. American Wigeon -; about a dozen below the weir. We seldom see these when the park is not flooded (and it's currently not flooded)
b.. Great Blue Heron -; nest building at the heronry, many herons about. There are at least 40 nests in the heronry, with several possible starts of more
c.. Western Screech-Owl -; Matt *saw* one pre-dawn, just sitting there beyond the East Footbridge south of the East Meadow
d.. PEREGRINE FALCON -; one seen flying east over the Dog Meadow; later seen flying NW towards the mansion for a much better view -; First of Year
e.. Varied Thrush -; several seen singing
f.. Northern Shrike -; at model airplane field, seen from Viewing Mound thanks to a sharp-eyed Lee Crawford
g.. Cedar Waxwing -; 20-25 just east of the weir
A late scan of the lake turned up HORNED GREBE and RING-BILLED GULL.

Singing birds included ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD, BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE, BROWN CREEPER, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, PACIFIC WREN, MARSH WREN, BEWICK'S WREN, AMERICAN ROBIN, VARIED THRUSH, PURPLE FINCH, HOUSE FINCH, SPOTTED TOWHEE, SONG SPARROW, GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. COMMON GOLDENEYE did some displays and calls.

Misses today included Ring-necked Duck, Rock Pigeon, Cooper's Hawk, Bushtit, and White-crowned Sparrow.

For the day, 55 species, with Peregrine Falcon new for the year.

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

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