Date: 10/24/24 1:47 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-10-22
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...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
