Date: 6/19/25 6:59 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-06-19
Tweets - We had a wonderful morning at Marymoor, with just about perfect conditions: mostly sunny, mostly windless, comfortable temperatures. Lots of singing, and lots and lots of evidence of nesting and nesting success. Our group was the largest in a long time, boosted by out-of-town visitors and people who got Juneteenth off from work.
Highlights: Spotted Sandpiper - Two below the weir, and we were able to see both Green Heron - Two adults flew south past the weir, landed, and then flew north again a few minutes later, calling both times Great Blue Heron - Many young have fledged and were attempting to hunt around the park. Many are still at the heronry
Speaking of baby birds, juveniles were noted for at least these species: Canada Goose, Wood Duck, Mallard, Anna's Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Great Blue Heron, Northern Flicker, American Crow,Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Bushtit, European Starling, American Robin, Dark-eyed Junco, White-crowned Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat, and Black-headed Grosbeak. There may well have been juveniles of other species that I didn't notice as such. But we also had many occupied nests, plus signs of on-going nest building by several species, so breeding is very much in-progress and not wrapping up.
Oh, we also had a plethora of Eastern Cottontails.
Missing species included Hooded and Common Mergansers, Caspian Tern, Red-eyed Vireo, Cliff Swallow, Bullock's Oriole, and Lazuli Bunting. The merganser, vireo, and Cliff Swallow used to nest every year in the park, but no longer.
For the day, 55 species.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
