[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-12-26

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - During predawn and for the first 1.5 hours of the survey, the
weather was rather pleasant. We even had some sun.  Quite birdy too.  After
that, we had little bits of precipitation with gray clouds, and increasing
wind.  Still not terrible, especially for December; with temps either side
of 40 degrees this morning.  Floodwaters are receding, but the south end of
the Dog Area and the boardwalk are still closed.

Highlights:
     Seven species of ducks in the slough below the weir
     Anna's Hummingbird - gorgeous male south of the East Meadow; our first
Anna's in five weeks (there is no longer a feeder at the park office)
     Barred Owl - Tony had one pre-dawn in the south end of the park
     Merlin - One along "snag row" just east of the Pea Patch
     Bewick's Wren - Many singing
     Coyote - One in the East Meadow

We had some definite CACKLING GEESE today, but again no positive ID of
Canadas.  Several distant flyby flocks of both geese and ducks.

Misses today included Canada Goose, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser,
American Coot, Ring-billed Gull (the morning gull flock stayed far away
from us), Cooper's Hawk, Steller's Jay, Brown Creeper, and Pine Siskin.

For the day, 45 species.

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