Date: 5/15/25 5:09 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Fwd: Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-05-15
Tweets - Oops - got away from me.
We had one really good sighting at Marymoor today, but otherwise it turned out to be a day with few viewing opportunities. The neotropical migrants are few, and they certainly weren't out strutting their stuff today. We heard several, but didn't see many at all. Our good bird was pretty good, though - Marymoor's 4th PECTORAL SANDPIPER was along the slough below the weir.
Highlights: Wood Duck - Five or six males, and a female with nine ducklings at the Rowing Club Vaux's Swift - One over the Pea Patch was the First of Year (FOY) for the survey. Normally, we'd have had them at least for at least the last three weeks Spotted Sandpiper - One below the weir, (FOY) for the survey PECTORAL SANDPIPER - as noted above and below Swainson's Thrush - Singing pre-dawn only, except for one singing at the Rowing Club. Whits were heard in the Dog Meadow Evening Grosbeak - About 6 flew over the Viewing Mound calling Western Meadowlark - One with a bunch of starlings on the grass soccer fields. We've had very few sightings of them this late in spring Lazuli Bunting - One heard, but not seen, in the Dog Meadow (FOY)
For warblers, we heard five species (Orange-crowned, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, and Wilson's, plus Common Yellowthroat), but only had sightings of a few Yellow-rumps. We had no flycatcher seen nor heard.
It was great seeing the PECTORAL SANDPIPER below the weir. We've had one previous spring sighting, a bird that was seen May 26-29, 2017. We've also had two fall sightings, September 14, 2005 and October 20, 2011. Today's bird was along the far shore of the weir, but gave us good long looks.
Weirdly, there are more species of shorebirds than species of warbler reported from Marymoor so far this year. Marymoor has never been a good location for shorebird viewing...
Misses today included Common Merganser (Matt may have glimpsed one), Band-tailed Pigeon, Green Heron, Western Wood-Pewee, Cliff Swallow, Cedar Waxwing, Bullock's Oriole, and Western Tanager. Additionally, I believe FOURTEEN species were heard-only today.
For the day, 61 species. For the year, we're at 113 species for the 2025 survey.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
