Lower dam outlet canal 1 yellow legs still around

Thanks for checking into this Heidi! I also received this and mostly
ignored it (although it did seem odd that the ABA would be sending
something like this out). I will forward the email to the ABA. It looks
like they haven’t posted anything on their FB page yet.

C.

—
Charles Swift
Moscow, Idaho
46°43′54″ N, 116°59′50″ W
chaetura@gmail.com

I got one of these, but I deleted it along with the 20 or so that were more obviously scams. I agree that it was well done, but I was suspicious that the ABA would go the GoFundMe route for a staffer’s child.

Tom McCabe, Boise

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Denise Hughes deniseh449@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 11:43 AM
To: Heidi Ware
Cc: IBLE To Post
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Warning: ABA Scam email

Thanks for the warning. I haven’t seen a message as you described.

Denise Hughes

Caldwell, Idaho

On Nov 29, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Heidi Ware heidithebirdnerd@yahoo.com [ible] > wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve reached out to ABA about this, but wanted to share the info about this scam ASAP, and also see if anyone else got this email?

I received an email pretending to be the ABA, asking for money for one of their staff members: a GoFundMe page for a sick baby named Arick. Unfortunately the links provided seem to lead to an anonymous PayPal account, and the photo of the baby used is swiped from a news story in Texas.

Normally scam emails are easy to spot. This one was not caught by my spam filters, and was actually fairly convincing and well written, using official GoFundMe and ABA logos.

Did anyone else get this email?

~Heidi

Boise

Thanks for the warning. I haven’t seen a message as you described.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

> On Nov 29, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Heidi Ware heidithebirdnerd@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve reached out to ABA about this, but wanted to share the info about this scam ASAP, and also see if anyone else got this email?
>
> I received an email pretending to be the ABA, asking for money for one of their staff members: a GoFundMe page for a sick baby named Arick. Unfortunately the links provided seem to lead to an anonymous PayPal account, and the photo of the baby used is swiped from a news story in Texas.
>
> Normally scam emails are easy to spot. This one was not caught by my spam filters, and was actually fairly convincing and well written, using official GoFundMe and ABA logos.
>
> Did anyone else get this email?
>
> ~Heidi
> Boise
>

We had quite an influx of American Robins this afternoon in the neighborhood here in the NW part of the valley. Had over 5″ of snowfall last night.

Packsaddle road north, Teton, Idaho, US
Nov 28, 2018 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: walked from house to bottom of subdivision and then west up the new road past Kay’s dairy
13 species

Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) 1 fresh tracks and one plunge hole with fresh scat
Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates villosus) 1
Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) 4
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) 1
Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) 2
Common Raven (Corvus corax) 2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 1
Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 75 large group on upper Grandview Dr. loop feeding along exposed grass and gravel where snow plow had cleared the road. We have had 4-5 hanging out so this was a new group in the neighborhood.
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 2
Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) 4
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 2

Hi All,There happened to be a juvenile Band-tailed Pigeon that landed in my backyard at about 5 PM today in Nampa. The bird landed on the porch railing, but unfortunately took off before I could take a few good pictures. I managed to find it sitting on my roof, and and took a few photos with my phone. Sorry about the poor image quality. With the fog and it getting darker outside, the pictures didn’t turn out as clear.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!Kristin Araki 

Hi all,
I’ve reached out to ABA about this, but wanted to share the info about this scam ASAP, and also see if anyone else got this email?
I received an email pretending to be the ABA, asking for money for one of their staff members: a GoFundMe page for a sick baby named Arick. Unfortunately the links provided seem to lead to an anonymous PayPal account, and the photo of the baby used is swiped from a news story in Texas.
Normally scam emails are easy to spot. This one was not caught by my spam filters, and was actually fairly convincing and well written, using official GoFundMe and ABA logos.
Did anyone else get this email?
~HeidiBoise

Say’s Phoebe perhaps?

I got out for some local birding over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. On
Thursday morning, I birded at Mann Lake and again had 2 SWAMP SPARROWS
foraging secretively in the dry weeds well east of the lake and north of
the model airplane area. A single BOHEMIAN WAXWING was only the second one
I’ve seen this fall and the second one I’ve ever seen at Mann Lake (both on
Thanksgiving, 2 years in a row). Full list and documentation on eBird:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50129588. A weird intergrade Northern
Flicker at Hell’s Gate SP had yellow-orange shafts, a mostly-gray
red-shafted like face pattern, red malar, and very faint red crescent on
the nape: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50134081.

This morning I birded in the University of Idaho Golf Course (closed to
golfers for the season). I had a distant view of a funky Haemorhous finch,
and then later heard the distinctive “pik-pik-pik” flight calls of an
apparent Purple Finch flying with a flock of House Finches. I figured the
Purple Finch may have flown to the upper end of the adjacent UI Arboretum,
so I eventually headed up there but failed to find it foraging among many
American Robins, House Finches, and Dark-eyed Juncos. There’s still a
good-sized flock of Audubon’s Warblers in the arboretum, and on Wednesday
afternoon I had a MYRTLE Yellow-rumped Warbler among them. This afternoon
I birded mostly on the Washington side of the Snake River, in Asotin
County. At Chief Timothy Park, west of Clarkston, I found another SWAMP
SPARROW on the marshy edge to the right hand side as soon as turning off
the highway onto the entrance road. I couldn’t get a photo of the
secretive back-lit sparrow, but I did get some voice recordings of its
distinctive call: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50213748.

Good Birding,

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID

Jay, Heidi, and I had a *Melospiza *filled morning at Ted Trueblood WMA
helping Boise State grad student Kate Owens and her fiance Ben trap Song
Sparrows for Kate’s Master’s work (with permission from WMA managers). The
highlight was catching 27 *Melospiza *sparrows at once, including 10 Swamp
Sparrows, 5 Lincoln’s Sparrows, and 12 Song Sparrows. The incredible number
of Swamp Sparrows left us reeling, since we had visited the area twice
already this fall for Southwestern Idaho Birder’s Association and Golden
Eagle Audubon Society field trips. Our first visit yielded no Swamp
Sparrows, and a week ago we detected only 4 individuals (a high count for
the site at the time). While processing our 10 Swamps, two remained in the
reeds nearby calling, providing us a total of 12 Swamp Sparrow’s for the
site! All Swamp Sparrows we captured were young of the year, likely
indicative of a productive breeding season for the species. Also notable,
all birds had good fat and muscle scores which is indicative of good
health, and upon release flew away with vigor.

Ted Trueblood WMA has been very generous to us in the past, hosting two of
the three Idaho state records for Le Conte’s Sparrow. It continues to be a
state sparrow mecca with this incredible high number for Swamp Sparrow. Who
knows what will turn up in the future (crossing fingers for Field
Sparrow).

Substantiating evidence of the claim can be found at
www.ornithologi.com along with
a link to our eBird list.

All the best birds to you all,

Bryce