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Subject: [obol] Great-tailed Grackles in Ontario
Date: 05-21-2018 18:02
From: Matt Cahill
To: OBOL
Reply-To: matt.c.cahill@gmail.com

Hi all,

On my way to Boise I’ve stopped at the Beck-Kiwanis Park in Ontario and
immediately found 5 GTGR (1 male, 4 females) that are moving and around
the bathroom and actively displaying. Lots of displaying. Only a few
eBird records out here previously so I figured it was worth a statewide
ping. Not sure where to post for the Idaho audience so if anyone knows
please forward this for me.

Best,
Matt Cahill 
Bend

I filled my sunflower seed feeder & went into the house, looked out the window & a male Lazuli Bunting had landed on the feeder. So, all my favs have now either arrived or I saw them migrating through. Good times!

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Hi – sorry for the late posting; two of my children were in a terrible accident (they are both alive, which was miraculous under the circumstances, thank God), so I’ve been in a fog for several days; but I just remembered now to mention that I got a new yard bird the evening of the 16th – Wilson’s Snipes winnowing overhead. I recognized their sound immediately, so it was fun to scan the sky and try to see them – much harder than you would think, lol. Fyi…Jonathan Barnett, Horseshoe Bend

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Hi birders,

This afternoon Ellen and I bumped into a flock of ibis in a flooded pasture west of Curlew Campground / east of the Stone Hills, and had one bird that looked like a pretty good candidate for Glossy. It had blueish gray feathering forming an incomplete line around the eye, black skin on the cheek, and a dark brown eye rather than red. I didn’t get a look at the legs. Our eBird checklist with the specific location and a photo can be found here:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45885224

I know there’s been more talk of hybridization over the past few years, but I didn’t see anything to point to a hybrid on this bird. I’m happy to hear input from others if there’s something I’m missing.

Good birding!

Stoddard and Ellen Davenport

Boise