[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-05-08

[Matt Bartels via Tweeters]

Hi Tweets -
Another pretty great spring day at Marymoor Park in King County.
A dozen of us enjoyed spring temps and lots of birds today - Michael was out of town, so the rest of us did our best to fill in.
The best overall bit of the day was actually having several spots with many warblers present. The spring birds might be slow-ish arriving, but they are getting here.

Highlights:
Evening Grosbeak [FOY] - 4 fly-bys , a species we get about every year, but only a couple times a year, generally
Swainson’s Thrush  [FOY] - finally back - several ‘whitting’ mostly pre-dawn, one even gave a full song. One glimpsed later in the day.
Black-throated Gray Warbler - [FOY] - one heard singing across from the windmill.
Western Tanager - one male seen mid-walk, one more heard at the Rowing Club
Black-headed Grosbeak - after only hearing them pre-dawn last week, this week we got nice looks at a couple, and had several singing
Warbling Vireo - a few singing, including sightings of a couple
Purple Martins have taken over the gourds at the lake viewing platform, but for the 2nd week a Tree Swallow pair continues to perch nearby w/ nesting material, trying in vain to enter one of the gourds where they presumably had tried to set up shop before the martins returned.
6 Warbler species including: Orange-crowned, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Gray and Wilson’s.

Many misses today, including Vaux’s Swift, Caspian Tern, Red-tailed Hawk, any pigeons

For the day, 58 species. Our walk year list increased by 3 to 110.

Matt Bartels
Seattle, WA

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