Date: 12/26/25 1:29 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-12-26
Tweets - During predawn and for the first 1.5 hours of the survey, the weather was rather pleasant. We even had some sun. Quite birdy too. After that, we had little bits of precipitation with gray clouds, and increasing wind. Still not terrible, especially for December; with temps either side of 40 degrees this morning. Floodwaters are receding, but the south end of the Dog Area and the boardwalk are still closed.
Highlights: Seven species of ducks in the slough below the weir Anna's Hummingbird - gorgeous male south of the East Meadow; our first Anna's in five weeks (there is no longer a feeder at the park office) Barred Owl - Tony had one pre-dawn in the south end of the park Merlin - One along "snag row" just east of the Pea Patch Bewick's Wren - Many singing Coyote - One in the East Meadow
We had some definite CACKLING GEESE today, but again no positive ID of Canadas. Several distant flyby flocks of both geese and ducks.
Misses today included Canada Goose, Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, American Coot, Ring-billed Gull (the morning gull flock stayed far away from us), Cooper's Hawk, Steller's Jay, Brown Creeper, and Pine Siskin.
For the day, 45 species.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
