[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2023-12-28
Dan Reiff
dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 18:30:11 PST 2023
Thank you very much for your much appreciated field reports, Michael.
I look forward to reading them each week and have for many years!
Happy New Year!
Dan Reiff, PhD
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> On Dec 28, 2023, at 5:29 PM, birdmarymoor <birdmarymoor at frontier.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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