[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2021-08-26

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Tweets – Seasonal changes and a change in the weather.  And changes in the birds at Marymoor.  Related?  Maybe just probably.  Cloudy and a touch breezy today, but the wind was pretty comfortable (low 60’s), and no rain. 

Highlights:
  a.. Band-tailed Pigeon – flock of around nine, one of our biggest groups of the year 
  b.. Rufous Hummingbird – 1-2 below the weir, not adult males, our first in six weeks 
  c.. Caspian Tern – five or six at the lake.  Getting late - we have only two previous sightings later than today’s 
  d.. Green Heron – juvenile along slough south of Dog Area 
  e.. Cooper’s Hawk – harassing Red-tailed Hawk on far side of slough, south of Dog Area 
  f.. WARBLING VIREO – many!  Seven would be a conservative count 
  g.. Barn Swallow – quite a few; in a late scan of the lake I was able to verify these were the dozens of swallows there, but we had others over the park itself 
  h.. LINCOLN’S SPARROW – one at the Pea Patch, a rather early Fall sighting 
  i.. Brown-headed Cowbird – juvenile with Red-winged Blackbirds.  First in six weeks 
  j.. FIVE WARBLER DAY – see below 
  k.. Western Tanager – several sightings
Our five warbler day started with COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, 2-3 YELLOW WARBLERS, and a WILSON’S WARBLER below the weir.  Along the slough trail towards the south end of the Dog Area, we found 1-2 male BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLERs.  Finally, in the SE part of the East Meadow, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was low in a blackberry bush.

Misses today included Hooded Merganser, Rock Pigeon, Western  Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and Black-headed Grosbeak.

For the day, 57 species.

= Michael Hobbs
= www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
= BirdMarymoor at gmail.com
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