[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-10-23

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - Perhaps we should have started at 8:00 a.m. instead of 7:30.  With
sunrise not until 7:38, and with overcast skies, it was quite a while
before the birds were awake and visible.  It never did get birdy, though it
did get neary sunny before the end of the walk.  Windless and warm, with no
precipitation, but quiet except for the robins and crows.

Highlights:
     Short-billed Gull - One or maybe a few among the dawn gulls on the
grass fields.  First of Fall (FOF)
     Northern Shrike - "Other Matt" photographed one at the south end of
the East Meadow, the rest of us missed it
     American Robin - Super-ubiquitous.  20+ seen every time we looked
anywhere
     Western Meadowlark - 19, or maybe 20, on the grass/gravel parking area
north of the Viewing Mound

And that's about it for highlights, except for two COYOTES across the
slough below the weir.

Misses today included Hooded Merganser, California Gull (though there may
well have been some in the gulls while it was still too dark to really
see), Pine Siskin, Lincoln's Sparrow, and Yellow-rumped Warbler (!).

We did manage 54 species today, but at least 9 of those were heard-only,
and about 15 were represented by only 1 or 2 individuals.

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