[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-01-04

[birdmarymoor]

Tweets - A pleasant enough day, with temps in the 40's, no wind, no fog until the end, and the predicted rain mostly a fiction.  It was birdy at first, and then became really quiet for the other 2/3rds of the walk.  Only four of us doing the walk, though.

Highlights:
    Greater White-fronted Goose - Two, with Canadas
    Ducks - Nine species, total, with most below the weir
    Short-billed Gull - About 150, with a couple of RBGU and some GWGU; our first big flock of gulls on the ground this winter 
    Barred Owl - One at the east end of the boardwalk about 6:45 a.m.
    White-throated Sparrow - One near the Dog Area porta-potties, with Golden-crowned and White-crowned Sparrows

Misses today included Cooper's Hawk, Purple Finch, and Pine Siskin.

The boardwalk should be re-opened by next week. 

For the day, 53 species.

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