Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2022-05-05
Date: Thu May 5 18:06:25 PDT 2022
From: birdmarymoor at gmail.com - birdmarymoor at gmail.com

Tweets -; It was a miserable Mayvember morning today, with temps dropping from 50 to 47 degrees while the mizzle turned to drizzle and then steady rain. The first-week-of-May survey is usually the best survey of the entire year (at least, the one with the highest species count). And we did have a lot species by the end, but sometimes we weren't having much fun. There were good birds and some surprises.

Highlights:
a.. SNOW GEESE -; Distant flock of ~150 flying north. Our latest spring sighting for Snow Geese ever, though we did have a large flock 2018-05-03
b.. Cinnamon Teal -; Male seen from the Lake Platform, and (probably the same) one seen at the Rowing Club
c.. Green-winged Teal -; Getting late -; maybe 5 at the mitigation ponds seen from the Rowing Club
d.. Ring-necked Duck -; Getting late -; pair seen from the Lake Platform
e.. Eurasian Collared-Dove -; One flew north from the East Meadow
f.. Mourning Dove -; Matt heard one singing pre-dawn. First of Year (FOY)
g.. LEAST SANDPIPER -; Matt heard a few small flocks fly up the slough predawn (FOY)
h.. Caspian Tern -; Two over lake (FOY)
i.. Hammond's Flycatcher -; One calling and posing, east edge of Dog Meadow (FOY)
j.. Swainson's Thrush -; One calling unseen from the east edge of Dog Meadow. Matt heard more "whit" calls predawn (FOY)
k.. American Pipit -; 4-5 in the Dog Meadow
l.. Lincoln's Sparrow -; One singing! predawn near the Viewing Mound
m.. Bullock's Oriole -; Male singing, calling, near weir
n.. Yellow Warbler -; Several heard singing, one seen (FOY)
o.. Yellow-rumped Warbler -; Many, many, many
p.. Townsend's Warbler -; Surprised to see one in the cottonwoods near the east end of the boardwalk
q.. Western Tanager -; Two silent males at the south end of the Dog Meadow (FOY)
r.. Black-headed Grosbeak -; Female with the tanagers, singing male from the boardwalk (FOY)
Kazuto Shibata photographed a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at the park on Tuesday, 5/3.

Misses today included Pied-billed Grebe, Rock Pigeon, Band-tailed Pigeon, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, and Warbling Vireo.

A few winter birds were missed for the first time this spring, and have probably moved on: Cackling Goose, Wilson's Snipe, Fox Sparrow, and Western Meadowlark (actually not seen last week either).

Despite the misses and the weather, we managed 75 species today.

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