[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2023-12-28

[birdmarymoor]

Tweets - The rain was minimal, just a moderate amount of mizzle and occasional and very brief bursts of drizzle, and all that let up about half-way through the walk.  Temps were, again, unseasonably warm (45-55 degrees!)  It was pretty birdy early on, but then we faced long stretches of nothing much.

Highlights:
    Greater White-fronted Goose - Three below the weir, possibly the same birds as last week
    Cackling Goose - A couple of dozen vs. a couple of thousand last week
    American Wigeon - Four far below the weir
    Cooper's Hawk - One at the Pea Patch, mobbed by crows.  A second sighting, probably a 2nd bird, high above the windmill
    Hairy Woodpecker - One
    Bushtit - Only one >!<
    Varied Thrush - One heard across the slough from the Lake Platform
    
So, overall a pretty quiet day except for the waterfowl - three species of goose and nine species of duck, total

Misses today were limited to just Lincoln's Sparrow, a species that has declined in occurrence notably in the last few years, but which has barely declined in abundance - that is to say, we used to get one or two and now often get none. 

For the day, a not-too-bad 54 species.

Happy New Year everyone

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