[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2024-10-31

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - The Halloween/Samhain edition of the survey definitely showed
things moving more into winter mode, though we are still waiting for our
winter diving ducks.  The temps were in the 40's, and felt colder for the
first couple of hours, but things cleared to a really nice morning.  It was
birdy most of the time.

Highlights:
     Greater White-fronted Goose - Eight
     Cackling Goose - At least 2000
     Trumpeter Swan - A flyby of 7, with a flyby of 4 later, both heading
towards the lake.  First of Fall (FOF).  One or two swans looked smaller ?!?
     Red-breasted Sapsucker - One at the Rowing Club; first in 6 weeks, and
only our 4th since July
     Cedar Waxwing - Good-sized flock(s)
     Pine Siskin - Good-sized flocks
     White-throated Sparrow - One near the Dog Area portapotties with WCSPs
and GCSPs for the 2nd straight week
     Western Meadowlark - At least one on the grass & gravel lot in the NE

We had some duck flybys early on, when the light was terrible; we may have
had Northern Shoveler.  Possibly there were Northern Pintail or
Green-winged Teal from the Lake Platform, and there was also a very distant
line of birds that may have been diving ducks.  But none of these could be
confirmed.

Misses today included Bufflehead, Northern Shrike, Bushtit, and Red-winged
Blackbird.

For the day, 61 species.

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