[Tweeters] Marymoor Park 2023-02-23

[birdmarymoor]

Tweets - It was a nippy 28 degrees yesterday when we started out, and it only got to 31 degrees by the end.  Throw in a biting breeze, and it felt downright cold at times.  We barely ventured onto the Lake Platform because it was just too painful.  Not very birdy yesterday, though we did find more birds around the mansion and at the Rowing Club.

Highlights:

    Virginia Rail - heard at least four from the boardwalk
    Hairy Woodpecker - one from the Rowing Club dock
    Merlin- flying fast downstream past the weir
    Varied Thrush - a couple near the mansion
    Purple Finch - one singing at the Rowing Club was our only finch of any kind
    Fox Sparrow - about a dozen, after having been a rare Miss last week
    White-crowned Sparrow - ditto

Very little singing yesterday, following a week with a great many birds and species singing.  Must have bene the cold.

We did have 4 or 5 RIVER OTTERS in the slough.
 
Misses included Short-billed Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Cooper's Hawk, Marsh Wren, and House Finch.

For the day, 51 species, and nothing new for the year.

- Michael Hobbs