<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Tweets -<div>Brian & I led another round of Thursday birding at Marymoor Park. For I think the first time this year…. we had a thursday with sun and warm weather! Spring for real. It was mighty pleasant, and there was lots of singing among the birds.</div><div><br></div><div>Highlights:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Virginia Rail - after hearing them a bit, part of the crew stuck around and got looks at a baby Rail poking around- nice!</li><li>Belted Kingfisher - first in several weeks, as they seem to mostly be further up the river/slough at nest burrows this time of year.</li><li>Swainson’s Thrush - First of Season (FOS) - I heard several whitting predawn, and as a group later we were pleasantly surprised to get looks at 2 different Swainson’s poking around. They are getting back!</li><li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet - while we totally missed them last week, they were thick this week, with many singing away in the sun.</li><li>Evening Grosbeak - FOS - a flock flew over , frustratingly not seen but heard well</li><li>Bullock’s Oriole - FOS - seen by some of the group, apparantly male</li><li>Orange-crowned Warbler - 2-3 heard singing, but no views this week</li><li>Wilson’s Warbler - FOS - 1 singing loudly.</li><li>mystery sparrow - the east meadow east trail group got brief looks at a sparrow that looked possible for a Clay-colored or Brewer’s - unfortunately, it disappeared before more could be settled on the id</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Misses:</div><div><br></div><div>Cackling Goose, Killdeer, Double-crested Cormorant, accipiters, falcons. In addition this is about the best week at the park for Hammond’s Flycatcher, & Nashville Warbler in the park, and we dipper there</div><div><br></div><div>For the day, we had 64 species - and a lot of fun in the weather</div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Seattle, WA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>