Very different here also from 2 weeks ago (record setting day for
varieties) . Today – Violet green swallows, cassin’s finches, blackheaded
grosbeaks, warblers, flycatchers all gone! Very few remaining hummingbirds.
spotted a few mountain chickadees, house wrens, red breasted nuthatches and
juncos.

vern

Started to do a shorebird survey for the World Shorebird count but will
return this pm and do the whole thing to be thorough. I didn’t have time
to get to all the birds in the distance, with 1 or more flocks of peeps
etc. Did see:
1 Black-necked Stilt
3 American Avocets
4 LB Dowitchers
1 Semipalmated Plover
6 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Lesser Yellowlegs
many Killdeer
40 or more White-faced Ibis, will try to get closer this pm to scan
faces and eyes.

Also enjoyed
5 American White Pelicans
60 + Franklin’s Gulls – and I’ll scan carefully this pm as a few reports
of Sabine’s Gulls have come from Oregon today
Lots of Ring-bills, 5+ California Gulls
etc.
Sunflowers have ripening seeds with Savannah Sparrows and blackbirds
feasting on them.
Judy Meredith, temporarily in Boise, jmeredit@bendnet.com

Guess it was good I stopped yesterday at Market from what others are saying about the lack of migrants today.

West Windrow, Jefferson, Idaho, US
Sep 1, 2017 1:20 PM – 2:40 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: Hiked the trail from south to north and back again. Was very quiet at first on this hot day but birds started to forage.
7 species (+1 other taxa)

Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) 1 roosting near north end
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1
Empidonax sp. (Empidonax sp.) 1 Two different flycatchers seen but silent; one was likely Dusky
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) 2

Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla) 1 Clear view of this bird: complete white eye ring, gray head, nape only slightly contrasted to head with gray tones, underside yellow except for small white area right at base of legs. Undertail coverts brighter yellow than chest and rest of underside. Actively foraging in shrubs next to trail about 5-7 feet high. I played the call note and bird flew up to top of shrub and responded with a short song phrase. Sounded similar to the call note and song in I Bird Pro for western birds.

Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) 1 Likely more than one bird but I just saw one at a time in the middle and south portion of the windrow so I may have been pushing it. Very good looks: Yellow face and chest with dark eye patch, 2 white wing bars, greenish nape, black streaks on side of chest and flanks.White outer tail feathers. Actively foraging in windrow.

Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) 10 Many Wilson’s throughout the windrow, some with much more obvious black caps than others. Probably undercounted this species.
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 2 Pink-sided

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38958132

No sighting today of the Flycatcher. The number of Warblers is also much smaller than yesterday

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

Big Change from yesterday. Haven’t seen a single Warbler this AM. Appears yesterday was a big push that’s quieted today. Not even getting the Black-headed Grosbeaks to the feeder this AM. With the brightening moon & clear nights, there must have been a mass exodus. I am seeing: W Wood-Pewees, Dusky Flycatchers, Am Goldfinches, Red-breasted Nuthatches & Song Sparrows.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot