[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-03-21

[Michael Hobbs]

Our equinox survey started with sleepy birders and sleepy birds under dark
grey skies, but the day became quite pleasant and birdy by 8 or 8:30.

Highlights:
     Northern Shoveler - Flyby of 5 birds - First of Year (FOY)
     Gadwall - Perhaps 30, a pretty high count for Marymoor
     Northern Pintail - One flock flying north, followed by a seemingly
larger (~35) flying south (FOY)
          Twelve species of duck total!
     Rufous Hummingbird - Three males, including one doing a J-display (FOY)
     Great Blue Heron - At least one eggshell under the heronry
     Great Horned Owl - One calling pre-dawn from the SE (FOY)
     Pileated Woodpecker - Excavating a hole in a snag in the Big
Cottonwood Forest, right next to the trail
     Merlin - A rather pale individual ENE of the mansion
     Hutton's Vireo - Finally saw one.  Like our other two reports this
year, it was singing southwest of the windmill
     Violet-green Swallow - Probably well over 100 (FOY)
     Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Ubiquitous.  Really.  Somewhere between 30 and
50
     Varied Thrush - Probably at least 3, including good looks at the south
end of the Dog Area
     Purple Finch - At least two heard, in full song.  First in a month
     White-throated Sparrow - Continues near 2nd/3rd Dog Swim Beach, with
Golden-crowned Sparrows

I was also at the park yesterday and had 5 species that we didn't have
today: BAND-TAILED PIGEON, RING-BILLED GULL, HAIRY WOODPECKER, AMERICAN
GOLDFINCH (one male, singing below the weir) amazingly (FOY), and SAVANNAH
SPARROW (about a dozen, most at the Model Airplane Field (FOY).

Missed both today and yesterday:  Short-billed Gull, Cooper's Hawk, Belted
Kingfisher, Northern Shrike, and Pacific Wren.

I had 55 species yesterday, we had 62 species today, with a combined total
of 67 species.   With 7 new species this week, we're at 85 species for the
year.

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