<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tweets - It started out frosty this morning, but it was sunny and the day warmed up nicely, with no wind and dry air. It was birdy too.</span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlights:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Greater White-fronted Goose - Today the two birds were below the slough for close looks</div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Cackling Goose - About a dozen this week. Last week was the first time since mid-September that we had missed them</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Hooded Merganser - One from Lake Platform, after 3 week absence</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Common Merganser - Many flying north, perhaps 32 total<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Sharp-shinned Hawk - Small adult, presumably a male based on size, at Rowing Club. First of Year (FOY)<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Red-tailed Hawk - One near our parked cars, mobbed by crows, with a dying LONG-TAILED WEASEL in its talons<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Barn Owl - One, very active, East Meadow and Model Airplane Field, before sunrise<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Five woodpecker day - Though PILEATED was heard-only. Lots of drumming today<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> HUTTON'S VIREO - Singing bird just SW of the windmill, unseen again<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Varied Thrush - One near the windmill, our first since January<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Western Meadowlark - One north of Fields 7-8-9<br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We had just two (unidentified) gulls today, flying over at 6:30 a.m. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">At the Rowing Club, we tracked down a drumming RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER. While we tried to be surreptitious in getting looks, a second sapsucker landed on the fence rail within eight feet of us, and the two birds remained still for at least a minute. We got cell-phone photos!</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Misses today included Rock Pigeon, Short-billed Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Northern Shrike, Tree Swallow (seen 17 of last 28 years), Bushtit, Purple Finch, and Pine Siskin.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Despite that long list of misses, we did have 55 species plus the unidentified gulls. Our 2024 list is at 76 species.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Possible arrivals expected or semi-expected in the next two weeks include Rufous Hummingbird, Say's Phoebe, Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Mountain Bluebird, and Savannah Sparrow. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">= Michael Hobbs</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">= BirdMarymoor@gmail.com</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">= www.marymoor.org/birding.htm</div></div></div></body></html>