Date: 12/12/25 10:40 am From: Michael Hobbs via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Marymoor Park (Redmond, King Co.) 2025-12-11
Tweets - Yesterday, it was just me and Matt Bartels. Everyone else had better things to do than walk around in the rain. (To be fair, many of them really *did* have better things to do). As it turned out, though, yesterday wasn't too bad. It did rain for much of the morning, but it was worst before dawn and in tapered off completely before 10 a.m. Brighter than last week, and a bit birdier too. Flooding was not as bad as we anticipated; the rain hasn't been that hard in Redmond, and the fields were not really flooded at all. Lake levels were up, but the boardwalk was only under a few inches of water.
Highlights: Barred Owl - Matt had one next to the boardwalk pre-dawn, our first Barred for November/December ever MERLIN - Taiga-type bird landed near the concert venue Purple Finch - Some really good, close looks while we were at the Rowing Club White-throated Sparrow - Two underneath the heronry Western Meadowlark - At least fourteen near the entrance to Lot G
Misses were notable yesterday, especially among geese and ducks, though part of the problem was our inability to identify silent fly-over flocks.
Misses yesterday included: Canada Goose !!! (though we had several flying flocks that were probably Canada and not Cackling, and one flock of 6 birds that were probably Greater White-fronted Goose), Gadwall, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal (though a flyby flock of ~30 was almost surely this species), Ring-necked Duck, Anna's Hummingbird, American Coot, Killdeer, Ring-billed Gull, Downy Woodpecker (though we may have heard one), Northern Shrike, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Siskin, and Lincoln's Sparrow. I figure the waterfowl have so many other choices of wet areas right now that they don't need to hang out with the Bald Eagles at Marymoor.
Despite that extensive list of misses, we had 47 species we were able to identify yesterday. Not bad, given the circumstances.
= Michael Hobbs = <BirdMarymoor...> = www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
