[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-11-20

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - The night's rain ended around 6:30 a.m., and the weather was
somewhere between really nice and delightful the rest of the morning.
Temps averaged about 50 degrees, no wind :)  It was birdy too, making for a
wonderful fall survey.

Highlights:
     Greater White-fronted Goose - Six below the weir
     Trumpeter Swan - Three flew south, calling, heading over the Viewing
Mound.  First of Fall (FOF)
     Green-winged Teal - Two drakes at the Rowing Club were our first since
mid-October
     Scaup sp. - Several seen briefly from the Lake Platform.  Jordan
thought Lesser based on his photos
     Short-billed Gull - Only mentioning because there were so many today
     Horned Grebe - One or two visible from Lake Platform
     Common Loon - A late scan of the lake turned up one.  Right when we
got to the slough, though, we may also have heard one.  (FOF)
     Double-crested Cormorant - Flock after flock flying towards the lake.
40+
     Sharp-shinned Hawk - Adult, seen twice, caused consternation amongst a
variety of birds
     Barn Owl - I saw one just after 6:30 at the model airplane field
     American Robin - Utterly ubiquitous.  Impossible to count, but over
100, and probably over 200
     Cedar Waxwing - Three near the Dog Area portapotties
     Western Meadowlark - Three or more, with one singing
     BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD - Male near the Dog Area portapotties.  Only our
2nd ever for November, and only our 5th ever for Oct-Feb.

We had no White-throated Sparrows, despite having had 3-4 last week (which
I forgot to mention in my Tweeters post - we had three at the same moment
near the Dog Area portapotties with another sighting 100 yards+ further
north).

Misses today included Common Merganser, American Coot, Killdeer, Cooper's
Hawk, Pine Siskin, and Lincoln's Sparrow.

For the day, 60 species.

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