[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-05-29

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - We had a dark, rainy morning that cleared gradually.  Birds were
scarce and very hard to see, so much of our birding was only by ear.  There
were very few surprises today, with all but three species having been seen
at least half the years previously for this week.

Highlights:
     Wood Duck - Two females with clutches of ducklings
     Eurasian Collared-Dove - One seen twice, only our 2nd sighting of the
year

That's about it.

We do have an interesting situation going on with the Purple Martin
gourds.  Tree Swallows apparently started nesting in one of the gourds, and
are still managing to hold on although the martins always chase them away.
The swallows have to hope all the martins are in the air before they can go
to their nest.  I believe we've also seen a martin in that same gourd this
spring.  But every week we see the swallows bringing food or nest materials
to the gourd, only to be turned away by the martins.

Misses today included Common Merganser, Rock Pigeon, Spotted Sandpiper,
Green Heron, Red-tailed Hawk, Downy and Hairy Woodpecker (though we did
have 3 woodpecker flybys we could not get to species), Violet-green
Swallow, Cliff Swallow, and Western Tanager.

For the day, 54 species.

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