[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-02-01

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This year's Imbolc edition of the Marymoor Survey was pretty good.  A touch of mizzle now and then, and a little too overcast, but it was warm and calm and fairly birdy.  With the cross quarter day (half-way between the solstice and the equinox), there was suddenly a lot more singing, herons at the nests, big buds on the Indian Plum, and many calling Pacific Tree Frogs pre-dawn.
Highlights:     Wood Duck - One beautiful male in the slough near the start of the boardwalk     Ruddy Duck - A pair, I believe, on the lake FAR OUT.  The male was barely recognizable; the probable female was sticking with him
     Anna's Hummingbirds - Several singing males, and the first displaying male of spring
     Cooper's Hawk - One across the slough below the weir.  First of Year (FOY)
     Merlin - One atop a fir NE of the mansion
     CEDAR WAXWING - Flock of about 30 in a berry-filled European Hawthorn in the northern part of the Dog Meadow.  (FOY)
     Pine Siskin - A couple of good-sized flocks
     White-throated Sparrow - One with Golden-crowns near the 2nd Dog Swim Beach bench
     Singing birds included Black-capped Chickadee, Pacific Wren, Bewick's Wren (many), American Robin, Song Sparrow, and Red-winged Blackbird.
Misses today included Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, Short-billed Gull, Hairy Woodpecker, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, and White-crowned Sparrow.
For the day, 52 species.  We are now at 66 species for the year.
= Michael Hobbs= BirdMarymoor at gmail.com= www.marymoor.org/birding.htm     
     
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