[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-10-22

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - A bit chilly to start today, with dense fog pre-dawn.  It took a
while, but the weather eventually cleared, leaving us under beautiful sunny
skies.  A really nice morning to be out.

Highlights:
     Cackling Goose - 1500-2000, I'd guess.  Huge flock landed on the grass
soccer fields, with many scattered flocks flying at dawn
     Virginia Rail - A few of us actually got glimpses of one, while
hearing another, both on the far side of the slough
     Ring-billed Gull - 2+ in a mixed flock of gulls at sunrise, First of
Fall (FOF)
     Four Woodpecker Day - No sapsuckers, but saw the other four common
woodpeckers
     Merlin - One flying to the NE
     White-throated Sparrow - Well marked bird with other Zonos near the
Dog Area portapotties (FOF)
     Western Meadowlark - One heard

A late scan of the lake turned up about 10 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 2 LESSER
SCAUP (FOF), and 20 WESTERN GREBE that were probably birds we'd seen from
the Lake Platform but which we'd been unable to identify.

Misses today included American Coot, Short-billed Gull, Northern Shrike
(seen 15 of the last 30 years this week), and Lincoln's Sparrow.

For the day, 60 species.

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