[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-08-14

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - Another rather dark and quiet August survey today.  There
were very few birds singing, and even calls were sparse.  A big fall
movement of birds should be starting any day now, but they hadn't
arrived this morning...

Highlights:
     Ring-billed Gull - One juvenile on the grass soccer fields.
First of Fall (FOF)
     Green Heron - At least three different birds, several sightings
     American Barn Owl - At least one, and probably two, around 5:30
a.m.  One sighting of a bird way off at the model airplane field, and
then a few minutes later, one flying over the East Meadow from the
west
     Warbling Vireo - One along the edge of the Dog Meadow
     Violet-green Swallow - At least three, near the Viewing Mound.
Our first since early July
     Purple Martin - Around 15 to the west of the slough south of the
Dog Area.  They were perched until an accipiter came to call

COMMON YELLOWTHROAT were our only warblers!

Our biggest surprise today was a DOUGLAS SQUIRREL on the boardwalk
railing.  This is just the 7th time we've ever seen a Dougie at the
park, and the first time we've had one in August.

Misses today included Band-tailed Pigeon, Vaux's Swift (Mason had one
Swift sp., but favored Black), Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper,
Golden-crowned Kinglet (may have heard), Yellow, Black-throated Gray,
and Wilson's Warblers, and Black-headed Grosbeak.

For the day, 50 species, counting the Swift sp. and the accipiter
(probably a Coop).

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