Date: 7/2/26 7:51 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2026-07-02
Tweets - It was a nice enough day at the park today; mostly overcast and sometimes a touch chilly, but otherwise not bad. It was a pretty typical breeding-season visit.
Highlights: Gadwall - Female with a couple of small ducklings - our first Gadwall 'lings of the summer? Green Heron - One below the weir again Great Blue Heron - Nests mostly empty, with many, many juveniles fishing the slough Osprey - Adult feeding young on the east nest on the baseball lights Four woodpecker day - With both Downy and Red-breasted Sapsucker appearing to be feeding fledged young Western Warbling Vireo - For unknown reasons, all of the Warblings have been at the Rowing Club this year. None in the main park Northern Yellow Warbler - Matt heard singing pre-dawn, but we only had one visual of a hatch-year bird and no singing Black-throated Gray Warbler - Hatch-year bird at the Rowing Club. Astonishingly, First of Year (FOY)
Generally, there were many hatch-year (or apparently hatch-year) birds about, and fewer adults than recently.
The RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER, WESTERN WARBLING VIREO, and BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, as well as CANADA GOOSE were all noted only at the Rowing Club. It is often very much worth going over there to extend your list.
Mammals included a pre-dawn RACCOON (FOY) and a MULE DEER across the slough.
Misses today included Hooded Merganser, Cliff Swallow, and Bullock's Oriole. Two other species that we saw in the last few weeks, but not today, typically become less common by Week 27. Common Merganser and Lazuli Bunting both have been seen less than 1/3 of years this week, so no great surprise that we missed them today.
For the day, 55 species. For the year, adding the Black-throated Gray, we're up to [a paltry] 113 species for the survey. We didn't add any new Year Birds in June.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
