Hi all,
Just a quick note to say that our Lucky Peak crew caught a Magnolia Warbler today during our fall migration monitoring. It was banded and released this morning and I haven’t heard whether it was re-sighted later or not.
Just a reminder, our Lucky Peak hawk, owl, and songbird banding projects are open for visitors daily from now until October 15th, and our Boise River songbird banding station is open daily until October as well. Both stations are excellent places to bird!
More info: https://ibo.boisestate.edu/banding-dates/
Hope some of you come say hi 🙂
~Heidi

Haven’t seen the Rose-breasted Grosbeak nor Black-headed Grosbeaks since We’d.

This AM, getting a flush of migrants. White-crowned, Chipping & Brewer’s Sparrows, House Wrens, Wilson’s Warblers, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch & Western Wood-Pewee. Best bird has been a quite cooperative Gray Catbird, calling & visibly showing itself.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Steve Butterworth and I have a White-eyed Vireo at Camas NWR. It’s in the same general area as the Great Crested Flycatcher (row of cottonwoods and willows 1/4 mile west of headquarters), but on the north side of the creek in short willows.

Darren Clark
Rexburg, ID

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Back at birding today. Last I saw Red-breasted Grosbeak was Wed. Today, a flush of migrants coming through: Wilson’s Warblers, White-crowned Sparrows, Chipping & Brewer’s Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House Wrens and, best bird this AM, a very cooperative Gray Catbird. Still watching for a Townsend’s Warbler.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot