Date: 11/12/26 3:46 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2026-11-12
Tweets - Today was overcast with a bit of fog, and very much colder than yesterday afternoon. As far as birds, it was almost entirely without anything of note.
Highlights: Virginia Rail - Two people caught the barest glimpse of one below the weir. It called about five minutes later, but was never really seen Barred Owl - Matt had one close-up in the East Meadow, very much pre-dawn Red Crossbill - Barely heard a few times Western Meadowlark - About nine on the grass/gravel lot in the NE
We had 1-2 glimpsed ACCIPITRINE hawks, and a late scan of the lake turned up a HORNED GREBE.
Oh, and we saw an AMERICAN BEAVER and a RED-EARED SLIDER (we've had them less than 10 times ever in November)
Misses included Green-winged Teal, Hooded Merganser, Killdeer, definitive Short-billed and Ring-billed Gulls, a definitive Cooper's Hawk, Northern Shrike, Purple Finch, Lincoln's Sparrow, and Yellow-rumped Warbler.
For the day, just 50 species plus the Accipitrine hawk(s) and the small unidentified gull(s).
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
