<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>Another pretty great spring day at Marymoor Park in King County.</div><div>A dozen of us enjoyed spring temps and lots of birds today - Michael was out of town, so the rest of us did our best to fill in.</div><div>The best overall bit of the day was actually having several spots with many warblers present. The spring birds might be slow-ish arriving, but they are getting here.</div><div><br></div><div>Highlights:</div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Evening Grosbeak [FOY] - 4 fly-bys , a species we get about every year, but only a couple times a year, generally</li><li>Swainson’s Thrush [FOY] - finally back - several ‘whitting’ mostly pre-dawn, one even gave a full song. One glimpsed later in the day.</li><li>Black-throated Gray Warbler - [FOY] - one heard singing across from the windmill.</li><li>Western Tanager - one male seen mid-walk, one more heard at the Rowing Club</li><li>Black-headed Grosbeak - after only hearing them pre-dawn last week, this week we got nice looks at a couple, and had several singing</li><li>Warbling Vireo - a few singing, including sightings of a couple</li><li>Purple Martins have taken over the gourds at the lake viewing platform, but for the 2nd week a Tree Swallow pair continues to perch nearby w/ nesting material, trying in vain to enter one of the gourds where they presumably had tried to set up shop before the martins returned.</li><li>6 Warbler species including: Orange-crowned, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Gray and Wilson’s.</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Many misses today, including Vaux’s Swift, Caspian Tern, Red-tailed Hawk, any pigeons</div><div><br></div><div>For the day, 58 species. Our walk year list increased by 3 to 110.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Seattle, WA</div><div><br></div></body></html>