<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Tweets
- It was a gorgeous day for our Imbolc/Groundhogs Day visit this
morning. Sunrise was stunning! This being February, it wasn't terribly
birdy today, but it wasn't boring and dull either. Once the morning
freeze warmed up a bit, it was a real delight to walk around.</span></div><div class=""><div id="x_ydp3460b80ayiv9857151435" class=""><div class="x_ydp3460b80ayiv9857151435yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Highlights:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Cooper's Hawk - juvenile at NW corner of Pea Patch all morning, adult seen from boardwalk</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Great Horned Owl - calling continuously from SE part of park pre-dawn. About 6:45 a.m., it made its way NE towards the mansion</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Merlin - One atop tall fir NE of the mansion. First of Year (FOY)</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Hermit Thrush - One just south of Dog Area on slough trail (FOY)</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Varied Thrush - Probably two birds, one a gorgeous male, near the windmill</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Purple Finch - Twice observed flocks of ~5 birds, at least one bird singing</li><li style="margin-left:15px" class="">Yellow-rumped Warbler - At least three (all "Myrtle" type) at Rowing Club ponds (FOY)</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">A late scan of the lake turned up our only RING-BILLED GULL and about three HORNED GREBES in the NE corner of the lake.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Misses today included American Wigeon, Short-billed Gull, and Marsh Wren.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Several
times, Matt or I thought we heard or saw House Finch, but I'm not sure
any of those instances was sure enough to put them on today's list, and
thus House Finch is also a Miss. Once, I was almost positive I heard
one call of an American Goldfinch, but nothing more was seen/heard. So,
we definitely had Purple Finch, plus one or two individuals of one or
two other finch species. Sometimes birding can be frustrating.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Yesterday, though, Mark and Lee had HOUSE FINCH and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW, both in the Pea Patch I believe</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">So for the day, 55 species, and for the week, at least 57.</div><font class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">= Michael Hobbs</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">= <a href="mailto:BirdMarymoor@gmail.com" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" data-loopstyle="link" class="">BirdMarymoor@gmail.com</a></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">= <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jRcPyJfaf02LW-KgconM9B6pazu80EtMpaQN5Cr7ZbsrNxBwH1nm3Sh8ANvi5jPgKEXtt4GkuFz2Az3lT10$" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" data-loopstyle="link" class="">www.marymoor.org/birding.htm</a></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>