Today I found 1 adult and 1 juvenile Sabine’s Gulls near the boat ramp below Minidoka Dam (Bishop’s Hole).They were feeding on hatching stone flies. The hatch starts around 10 and goes most of the day.
Also present: Franklin’s and Ring-billed Gulls, Common and Forster’s Terns, and other water birds.
Steve Bouffardsh_bouffard@yahooCom

Yesterday couple westerns a yellow leg and this stilt with this drooping
bill or is it a pectoral

quackquack – love those juncos!! =)personality
still resolving hum mystery
=)chipity

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From: “Denise Hughes deniseh449@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “ible”
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5:28:45 AM
Subject: Re: [IBLE] FOS WCSP here

Juncos were seen on Saturday at Blacks creek.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

On Sep 17, 2018, at 11:14 AM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com > wrote:

moments ago Missy spotted our first-of-season White-crowned Sparrow beasties, one HY and one AHY

next up/down? juncos showing up and hums departing? 3+ Black-chins and a mystery hum remain, need better looks, need input, need data…….!!

not certain, but if I were a hum, i might be thinking that these salvias look yummylicious right now 😉 givemesomeofthat….

quack! mallards across the street are of no help with this mystery hummer ID

LA

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Juncos were seen on Saturday at Blacks creek.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

> On Sep 17, 2018, at 11:14 AM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
>
>
> moments ago Missy spotted our first-of-season White-crowned Sparrow beasties, one HY and one AHY
>
> next up/down? juncos showing up and hums departing? 3+ Black-chins and a mystery hum remain, need better looks, need input, need data…….!!
>
> not certain, but if I were a hum, i might be thinking that these salvias look yummylicious right now 😉 givemesomeofthat….
>
> quack! mallards across the street are of no help with this mystery hummer ID
>
> LA
>
>
> —
>
>

moments ago Missy spotted our first-of-season White-crowned Sparrow beasties, one HY and one AHY

next up/down? juncos showing up and hums departing? 3+ Black-chins and a mystery hum remain, need better looks, need input, need data…….!!

not certain, but if I were a hum, i might be thinking that these salvias look yummylicious right now 😉 givemesomeofthat….

quack! mallards across the street are of no help with this mystery hummer ID

LA

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A little out of range, but a black vulture is being seen in Montana, north of Helena.

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Subject: [MOB-Montana] Black Vulture in Choteau-located [1 Attachment]
From: “Timothy Barksdale timothy.barksdale@gmail.com [MOB-Montana]”
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018, 9:06 PM
To: MOB-Montana@yahoogroups.com
CC: Michael Schwitters

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Mobsters-

Since I don’t do email on my -phone and do not have internet at my house right now… And… I am selling 2 of my 3 pieces of property including my house, I am a bit busy and perhaps seemed distracted. I also only get the digest and so miss all of the updates etc…

Apologies for not giving out a ton of information but I had to do the research and the work. Everything came together today.

This evening about 4:44 pm, Mike Schwitters and I located the bird at point blank range and had 100% confirming looks- after it was originally spotted from above on a bluff overlooking the city. The bird came in to a roost low and fast, disrupting all the other birds. We jumped in the car drove down to the public streets and I finally spotted the smaller, blacker(with greenish cast) and whitish light grey tarsi, with white in the primaries and the classic blackish cowled wattles on the head and facial area. Bill is tipped with creamy yellow. Distinctive scoop shape etc.

Mike and I will document the bird and have over 200 images to work with.

I drove over 150 miles today following my hunches that the vultures are feeling on dying calves as well as roadkill..

The bird was originally found on Sept 11 in town, drinking water about 6 pm in the evening from a tire, planter where sprinkler water had accumulated. They did not want to be disturbed or surrounded by birders when it was posted. Also, Due to some weird timing, they did not want to post stuff right away- and of course- WE HAD NO EVIDENCE the bird was still here. I learned about this bird yesterday and saw the first images then. I was stunned.

So we finally found it.

In the last 2 weeks it sounds like a Vulture roost has formed nightly on the south side of 8th St. NW in Choteau. There, a series of very large Cottonwoods furnishes an excellent evening perch. These trees are also visible from 9th Ave NW. I suspect that if birders are standing on the street and the birds fly out in the morning – the Black Vulture will be found. If it returns to the roost on the night of the 15th then it will be relatively easy at that time too. But we of course have no guarantees. Cold nights will move these birds out at some time.

Anyway, it has now been a long day and I will drive back out to the house and sleep.

I hope Mike posted too.

Tim

Timothy Barksdale
Birdman Productions LLC
P.O.Box 1124
69 Mountain View Dr.
Choteau, MT 59422

Birdman Adventures LLC
Somewhere in Missouri 🙂

timothy.barksdale@gmail.com

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Tom,
I absolutely love the concept of infecting folks with an interest in birds………
And I have a notion that there could be – maybe? – a trickle down effect onto our healthiest of environmental concerns, ja?

TUVUs rock, defecating or not……… 😉

LA

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From: “‘Tom McCabe’ tmccabe9@cableone.net [ible]”
To: “ible”
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:28:47 PM
Subject: [IBLE] Turkey Vultures along the river [1 Attachment]

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Since I have never felt the temerity to post a photo to IBLE (there are so many great photographers on this list serve), I’m not sure my photo will get through. If it does, it’s a photo of a small group of Turkey Vultures that paused in the trees between Quinn’s Pond and the Boise River. There were 7 when I first saw them, but only 4 by the time I got to the tree. (I think they paused here to defecate.)

They were such a sight that 2 of the Boise bike officers grabbed me to find out what they were. They were quite pleased that they were correct in their identification, but then wondered if there was any significance to the vultures circling. When I explained they were just rising on a thermal to get elevation, they were relieved that it didn’t indicate something had died. (I think I may be infecting them with an interest in birds—and they’re out there on the greenbelt all day long.)

Anyway, I hope the photo, however poor, comes through.

Tom McCabe, Boise

blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } I have a maggie here that is quite innovative.  I toss out sunflower seed for ground foraging birds.  This magpie chooses a seed and carries it to a rock,where it jumps up, grasps the seed with its feet and splits open the seed with its beak.  One seed after the other, get a seed, carry it to this particular rock and operate on it.
Do you remember the days when it was said that what elevates humans from mere animals was our ability to use tools?

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Since I have never felt the temerity to post a photo to IBLE (there are so
many great photographers on this list serve), I’m not sure my photo will get
through. If it does, it’s a photo of a small group of Turkey Vultures that
paused in the trees between Quinn’s Pond and the Boise River. There were 7
when I first saw them, but only 4 by the time I got to the tree. (I think
they paused here to defecate.)

They were such a sight that 2 of the Boise bike officers grabbed me to find
out what they were. They were quite pleased that they were correct in their
identification, but then wondered if there was any significance to the
vultures circling. When I explained they were just rising on a thermal to
get elevation, they were relieved that it didn’t indicate something had
died. (I think I may be infecting them with an interest in birds-and they’re
out there on the greenbelt all day long.)

Anyway, I hope the photo, however poor, comes through.

Tom McCabe, Boise