Date: 10/23/25 7:56 pm From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-10-23
Tweets - Perhaps we should have started at 8:00 a.m. instead of 7:30. With sunrise not until 7:38, and with overcast skies, it was quite a while before the birds were awake and visible. It never did get birdy, though it did get neary sunny before the end of the walk. Windless and warm, with no precipitation, but quiet except for the robins and crows.
Highlights: Short-billed Gull - One or maybe a few among the dawn gulls on the grass fields. First of Fall (FOF) Northern Shrike - "Other Matt" photographed one at the south end of the East Meadow, the rest of us missed it American Robin - Super-ubiquitous. 20+ seen every time we looked anywhere Western Meadowlark - 19, or maybe 20, on the grass/gravel parking area north of the Viewing Mound
And that's about it for highlights, except for two COYOTES across the slough below the weir.
Misses today included Hooded Merganser, California Gull (though there may well have been some in the gulls while it was still too dark to really see), Pine Siskin, Lincoln's Sparrow, and Yellow-rumped Warbler (!).
We did manage 54 species today, but at least 9 of those were heard-only, and about 15 were represented by only 1 or 2 individuals.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
