Date: 3/12/26 2:07 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2026-03-12
Tweets - The night's high winds pretty much let up by 6:00 a.m., and we had no precipitation and temps comfortably in the mid-40's. What we didn't have was light. Thick, thick overcast kept the park almost too dark to bird at all for much of the morning. And, with a few exceptions, the birds seemed to have stayed in bed. Sensible of them.
AMERICAN CROWS and AMERICAN ROBINS were plentiful, as were NORTHERN FLICKERS. Besides those, we had a big up-tick in the number of PURPLE FINCH, who were seen and also heard well - calls, vireo-like songs, AND the typical repeated burbly songs. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS were also numerous and singing.
Other that that, it was tough birding, and we had to search hard for virtually everything we managed to find.
I did think I heard RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD immediately south of the Dog Meadow, and after visiting the Rowing Club, I trekked back to that spot and found a displaying male. First of Year (FOY). That was are only new bird for the year; there were a dozen or two swallows flying high overhead, but they seemed to be all TREE SWALLOWS. No Violet-green Swallows for us yet.
Misses today included Hooded Merganser, Ring-billed Gull, Northern Shrike, Violet-green Swallow, and Pine Siskin.
For the day, we eked out 53 species. Adding RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, we're at 77 species for the survey this year.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
