[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-09-19

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - Today's regularly scheduled survey at Marymoor Park was apparently
moved to Graymore Park.  It was so foggy and gray this morning that it
would have been almost impossible to see any birds, if there had been
birds.  Luckily, the fog was somewhat cleared by the time we got to the
Lake Platform and it was actually sunny by the time we were going around
the mansion.

This week, historically, has the largest cumulative number of species seen
of any week after mid-May, but this is a bit illusory.  We are at the seam
when summering birds depart and winter birds arrive, and year-to-year
different birds have lingered longer or arrived earlier.  There have been
about a dozen rarities observed during Week 38, but  we've gotten a rarity
in only about half of the years.  So the number of species you might find
on any given day is still moderate, even though the number of possible
species is large.  Today's was not large, and the day's list grew SLOWLY.

Highlights:
     Greater White-fronted Goose - Two adults and two juveniles on Fields
7-8-9.  First of Fall (FOF)
     American Wigeon - Four on the lake (FOF), seen during a late scan of
the lake
     Ruby-crowned Kinglet - One along west edge of the Dog Meadow (FOF)
     American Pipit - Eric had eleven on the Grass Soccer Fields when he
left early (FOF)
     Fox Sparrow - About 7, including some singing (FOF)
     White-crowned Sparrow - Heard a few fractured Pugetensis songs, and a
few fractured Gambelii songs (fof for that subspecies)
     Golden-crowned Sparrow - Maybe a dozen, including some singing (FOF)
     Western Meadowlark - Four north of Fields 7-8-9 (FOF)

Misses today included Hooded Merganser, Vaux's Swift, Northern Harrier,
Bald Eagle, Barn Swallow, Bushtit, Red-winged Blackbird, Orange-crowned
Warbler, and Yellow-rumped Warbler.

No species have lingered unseasonably late this year, few have arrived
unseasonably early, and today we lacked any unusual-but-possible species.

We did see some salmon making their way up the slough just below the weir.

For the day, 54 species.

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