[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-12-05

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - A frosty and foggy start to our morning, but that cleared pretty
well by about 9:00, leaving us with gorgeous weather.   There were,
however, very noticeably fewer birds this week than in either of the past
two weeks.

Highlights:
     Ducks - 9 species
     Horned Grebe - A late scan of the lake confirmed a Horned Grebe that
we thought we might have had from the Lake Platform. First in 8 weeks.
     Falcon - One distant bird was likely a Merlin
     ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER - One at the Pea Patch; only our 5th December
Orange-crowned ever
     Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5-6 birds; never common by December

Not a long list of highlights, but we did have most of the regular Winter
birds.  A PILEATED WOODPECKER that flew past the Lake Platform during my
late scan of the lake was our 4th woodpecker species for the day (missing
only sapsucker from the likely woodpeckers).  And except for Northern
Shrike, we had all of the expected passerines.

No sign of last week's Mountain Chickadee.

Misses today included Green-winged Teal, American Coot, Killdeer,
Ring-billed Gull, Cooper's Hawk, and Northern Shrike.

For the day, 55 species.

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