[Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2026-02-05

[Michael Hobbs via Tweeters]

Tweets - All that fog that was reported on early this morning?  It was
actually at Marymoor Park.  I had no fog anywhere from West Seattle through
Bellevue and Overlake.  It wasn't until dropping down into the Sammamish
Valley that there was any.  And it seemed that there was all of it;
couldn't see 20 yards.  Luckily, by about 9:00, it had pretty much entirely
burned off.  The day was pretty birdy and nice, with temps in the 40s for
the most part, no precipitation, and no wind.

Highlights:
     Great Blue Heron - At least 50, with at least 45 standing in the
heronry
     Pileated Woodpecker - One near the concert venue.  First of Year (FOY)
     Hutton's Vireo - One singing near the Box Office of the concert venue
(FOY).  Only our 6th February sighting ever
     Northern Shrike - One north of Fields 7,8,9
     American Robin - Lot of singing
     Cedar Waxwing - About 25 in the same two hawthorn trees that they were
in last week, Dog Meadow edge, just east of the heronry
     Yellow-rumped Warbler - A couple just before the boardwalk (FOY)

It was also a good day for animals, with Eastern Gray Squirrel, American
Beaver, Muskrat (FOY),  Eastern Cottontail, River Otter, and Pacific Tree
Frog (heard pre-dawn).   The beaver sighting was cool; we first saw it
swimming painfully slowly upstream, just below the weir.  It then climbed
out on the weir and waded ponderously across.  They may be great at felling
trees, but they are not graceful.

Misses today included Ring-necked Duck, Hooded Merganser, and Short-billed
and Ring-billed Gull (though we did have one black wing-tipped gull that
was almost certainly one of those).  We had a clean sweep of all of the
expected passerines.

For the day, 57 species.  For the year, adding three, we're up to 71
species, I believe.

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