A very nice day at Marymoor, despite the heavy overcast.  No precipitation, and not very much wind.  On the downside, sometimes a bit dim for good viewing, way too many mosquitoes near the lake, and so much fresh growth on the trees and shrubs that finding birds was somewhat tricky.  It's a jungle out there.

Highlights:

Green Heron                     A couple of looks
Caspian Tern                    1 flew south towards the lake
Western Screech-Owl       Matt heard 1 ridiculously early
Black Swift                       A dozen or two - 5th straight week
6 FLYCATCHER DAY   See below
Purple Martins                  Looking to be taking over a gourd
Wilson's Warbler              Heard one near windmill

Still no Red-eyed Vireo.

Flycatchers:  WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE; WILLOW FLYCATCHER; LEAST FLYCATCHER seen and heard just north of Dog Central, the dog swim area with the bulletin board; PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER heard near south end of the Dog Area; ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER found late at the north end of the East Meadow; EASTERN KINGBIRD in the East Meadow - Gene Hunn found 2 there later.

Here are the Marymoor records of the 3 rare flycatchers of the day:

Least Flycatcher                 05-Jun-1983
Ash-throated Flycatcher     07-Jun-2006 - 09-Jun-2006
Eastern Kingbird                07-Jun-2006 - 08-Jun-2006
Eastern Kingbird                11-Jun-1998
Eastern Kingbird                13-Jun-2001
Ash-throated Flycatcher     15-Jun-2005
Least Flycatcher                 17-Jun-2010
Ash-throated Flycatcher     17-Jun-2010
Eastern Kingbird                17-Jun-2010
Eastern Kingbird                18-Jun-2007
Ash-throated Flycatcher     19-Jun-2007
Least Flycatcher                 05-Jul-2007 - 19-Jul-2007 (sporatic)
Eastern Kingbird                 26-Aug-2008

So it's not at all unprecedented for these species to show up at the same time of year.  This was essentially the 3rd LEFL sighting, the 4th ATFL sighting, and the 6th EAKI sighting.

Quite a day.  68 species.  Caspian Tern and the 3 flycatchers were new for the year, which I believe brings our 2010 list up to 129 species.

== Michael

Common Yellowthroat male
Least Flycatcher