<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>With Michael out of town today, it fell on the rest of us to suffer through a beautiful spring day at Marymoor Park.</div><div>Our hopes were high - this is historically about the best week of the year for Marymoor’s walk, in terms of total # of species reported - almost anything could show up this time of year. While it was birdy and enjoyable all day, we ended up without any big rarities or surprises.</div><div><br></div><div>Highlights:</div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Swainson’s Thrush are back - several heard whitting, one song heard pre-dawn [FOY]</li><li>6 warbler species - Yellow-rumped numbers are thinning out, but we had several Yellow Warblers [FOY], 2 Wilson’s Warblers, a few Black-throated Gray Warblers [at the Rowing Club], a few Orange-crowned and many Common Yellowthroats.</li><li>Cedar Waxwing - although we had some over the winter, this appeared to be our first of the summer Cedars</li><li>Black-headed Grosbeak & Warbling Vireos - several singing away, some of each even glimpsed.</li><li>Western Tanager - two over at the Rowing Club spared us from totally missing an expected bird for this week.</li><li>Golden-crowned Sparrow - still a few left in the park.</li></ul></div><div> Misses include many departed [presumably] winter birds - no Bufflehead, Ring-necked Ducks, or Am. Wigeon. Also missed any of the hoped for flycatchers</div><div><br></div><div>For the day, 60 species</div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Seattle, WA</div></body></html>