Highlights, Valley County Birding 5/24-5/26: Cassin’s vireo, warbling vireo, Williamson’s sapsucker, N Pygmy owl, Pileated WP, ruffed grouse drumming, hermit thrush, black headed grosbeak; warblers: Townsend’s, orange crowned, y-rumped, yellow, Nashville, calliope, rufous and black chinned hummers. Also big surprise when a wood duck flushed from my “screech owl” nest box, probably about 600+ meters from Cascade Reservoir!
(Pics of some of these I will post later.)
The latest thunderstorm is lifting, headed back out,
Happy Trails!
Rich Rusnak, in Cascade

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> On May 25, 2019, at 10:40 PM, ‘Tom McCabe’ tmccabe9@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
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> Wow! I am so envious. If I send you my address, could you post it where all the birds can see it? My lists seem quite mundane by comparison.
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> Tom
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> From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan Patla susan_patla@hotmail.com [ible]
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 9:49 PM
> To: Ible
> Subject: [IBLE] Teton Valley-Packsaddle
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> Birds are really hammering feeders in our area. Today saw FOY Gray Catbird. Also yesterday and today, observed a few sub-adult Ferruginous hawks foraging on the valley floor.
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> Here is list for my morning walk:
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> Packsaddle Estates, Teton, Idaho, US
> May 25, 2019 9:32 AM – 11:16 AM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 2.0 mile(s)
> Comments: walked from home on the upper loop
> 41 species
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> Ruffed Grouse 1 drumming
> Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 vocalizing
> Mourning Dove 2
> Broad-tailed Hummingbird 7
> Calliope Hummingbird 7
> Sandhill Crane 1 calling from valley floor
> Turkey Vulture 2 perched in Douglas fir
> Northern Harrier 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 1 heard calling from bottom of subdivision
> Downy Woodpecker 1
> Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 1
> American Kestrel 1
> Hammond’s Flycatcher 1 heard in dense forest patch
> Dusky Flycatcher 1 heard a “duhic” call
> Steller’s Jay 2
> Clark’s Nutcracker 1
> Common Raven 1
> Tree Swallow 2
> Violet-green Swallow 2
> Black-capped Chickadee 4
> Mountain Chickadee 3
> House Wren 10 all singing
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 singing
> Mountain Bluebird 1
> American Robin 7
> Gray Catbird 1 FOY for neighborhood, first heard and then saw
> Evening Grosbeak 29 Saw one large group perched by feeders, others near other feeders in subdivision
> Cassin’s Finch 18
> Pine Siskin 15
> Chipping Sparrow 5
> Dark-eyed Junco 1
> White-crowned Sparrow 1 singing
> Green-tailed Towhee 5
> Bullock’s Oriole 1
> Brown-headed Cowbird 8
> Orange-crowned Warbler 1
> Yellow Warbler 1
> Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) 2
> Western Tanager 1
> Black-headed Grosbeak 8
> Lazuli Bunting 1
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> View this checklist online at https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fview%2Fchecklist%2FS56741875&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8e29a45d2aa243e6520f08d6e18908cf%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636944376002406781&sdata=GffHvh%2FdWm1i%2B77c%2B9ADnHWE7CboPTsdJHas4Dm4dvM%3D&reserved=0
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I chime in…….
Yesterday we had our first ever Ever yard bird Swainson’s Thrush, and this is for any and every yard we’ve owned in the western U.S., in five western states including Alaska.
Can you imagine our faces when we first heard our SWTH singing?
And can you imagine how useless we were for the rest of the day, and that we’re mostly useless today?!! eyiyi

But, Susan, in keeping with Tom’s notion, several of the birds in your hood would be “year birds” for us, so we should send you our address too….
We need more “hammers” 😉

Larry

alpha codes herein….. [ http://www.birdpop.org/docs/misc/Alpha_codes_eng.pdf | http://www.birdpop.org/docs/misc/Alpha_codes_eng.pdf ]

From: “‘Tom McCabe’ tmccabe9@cableone.net [ible]”
To: “Susan Patla” , “IBLE”
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 10:40:20 PM
Subject: RE: [IBLE] Teton Valley-Packsaddle

Wow! I am so envious. If I send you my address, could you post it where all the birds can see it? My lists seem quite mundane by comparison.

Tom

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan Patla susan_patla@hotmail.com [ible]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 9:49 PM
To: Ible
Subject: [IBLE] Teton Valley-Packsaddle

Birds are really hammering feeders in our area. Today saw FOY Gray Catbird. Also yesterday and today, observed a few sub-adult Ferruginous hawks foraging on the valley floor.

Here is list for my morning walk:

Packsaddle Estates, Teton, Idaho, US
May 25, 2019 9:32 AM – 11:16 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: walked from home on the upper loop
41 species

Ruffed Grouse 1 drumming
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 vocalizing
Mourning Dove 2
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 7
Calliope Hummingbird 7
Sandhill Crane 1 calling from valley floor
Turkey Vulture 2 perched in Douglas fir
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 heard calling from bottom of subdivision
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 1
American Kestrel 1
Hammond’s Flycatcher 1 heard in dense forest patch
Dusky Flycatcher 1 heard a “duhic” call
Steller’s Jay 2
Clark’s Nutcracker 1
Common Raven 1
Tree Swallow 2
Violet-green Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Mountain Chickadee 3
House Wren 10 all singing
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 singing
Mountain Bluebird 1
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 1 FOY for neighborhood, first heard and then saw
Evening Grosbeak 29 Saw one large group perched by feeders, others near other feeders in subdivision
Cassin’s Finch 18
Pine Siskin 15
Chipping Sparrow 5
Dark-eyed Junco 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1 singing
Green-tailed Towhee 5
Bullock’s Oriole 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 8
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) 2
Western Tanager 1
Black-headed Grosbeak 8
Lazuli Bunting 1

View this checklist online at [ https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fview%2Fchecklist%2FS56741875&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8e29a45d2aa243e6520f08d6e18908cf%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636944376002406781&sdata=GffHvh%2FdWm1i%2B77c%2B9ADnHWE7CboPTsdJHas4Dm4dvM%3D&reserved=0 | https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Fview%2Fchecklist%2FS56741875&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8e29a45d2aa243e6520f08d6e18908cf%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636944376002406781&sdata=GffHvh%2FdWm1i%2B77c%2B9ADnHWE7CboPTsdJHas4Dm4dvM%3D&reserved=0 ]

Just saw it near and across from Eagle Fire Station No. 1 as others have
reported on ebird. Four other birders besides my friend and I. 1418-1428.

Diann Stone Boise Depot Bench

Hey Carl, yuge congrats! gotta say this makes me LOL thinking back 15 yrs or so about intensely serious listers in S Texas arguing about the precise location of a bird seen (“sighted” in birding lingo) on the Lower Rio Grande, i.e., “was the bird on this side of the middle of the river or was it on the Mexican half of the river?” and discussion/debate would ensue for hours and hours, perhaps days, with many MANY posts to texbirds, on and on. anon!! and if the bird CROSSED The River, then why oh why can’t I count it on both my Mexican and U.S. lists regardless of where I’m standing?” again, LOL

Larry

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From: ebird-alert@cornell.edu
To: “Larry Arnold”
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2019 1:25:01 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for Idaho

*** Species Summary:

Clay-colored Sparrow (1 Boundary)

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Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (3)
– Reported May 26, 2019 05:49 by Carl Lundblad
– Boundary Creek WMA, Boundary, Idaho
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– Comments: “Actual count of singing males. At least 2 of these were just over the international border.”

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Yes, the bird has been hanging out in the area since I arrived just after 11:00a this morning. First flew across State St and perched on a high power pole for awhile, then flew back toward the fire station. A bit later, I was joined by another birder, Janet Phillips, and we observed the bird in the trees around the fire station, and then perched up on the fire station roof for quite a while. It’s definitely hanging around this very specific spot in Eagle, so it should be easy for anyone to find. Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone… Thx again, Jason. Jonathan

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On May 25, 2019, at 7:34 PM, Jason Talbot > wrote:

I think you have a decent shot at seeing it if you have an hour or so to wait it out. It has a pattern of flying out to the west and back to the fire station.

If anyone comes into town you should check out tha male Anna’s Hummingbird at Dry Creek Cemetery as well. You’ll see it and hear it singing at the east entrance on dead snags in the hollow at the trailhead parking entrance.

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On Saturday, May 25, 2019, 7:17 PM, Jason Talbot > wrote:

It is a California Scrub-Jay. This will be the third year that one has been reported in Eagle. There are photos in eBird. It’s not a Woodhouse’s.

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On Saturday, May 25, 2019, 7:03 PM, Jonathan Barnett jrb4jc@hotmail.com [ible] > wrote:

Has the Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (present in Idaho) been ruled out somehow? The e-Bird ‘rare bird’ notification says the people finding the bird have it listed as the “California Scrub-Jay”.. Now, this email says the “Florida Scrub-Jay”. Does anyone know if an actual distinction has been made about this bird, and why it’s not being reported as the Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay? Just wondering…thx Jonathan, HSB

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From: ible@yahoogroups.com > on behalf of mbusshp6m@icloud.com [ible] >
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 6:36:24 PM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Florida Scrub Jay in Eagle

I saw the Florida Scrub Jay this afternoon at about 3:30. It was in the bushes just west of the Eagle Fire Station on S Plaza Drive. The bird moved slightly north into trees at the intersection of S Plaza Drive and E State St for better views.

Thanks to others for posting info on this bird’s location.

Cheers, Marty Marzinelli

Eagle, ID

Yesterday I reported that I had seen a Florida Scrub Jay (FLSJ) in Eagle, but that was inaccurate. I had seen a California Scrub Jay (CASJ), as recently reported by several other people.

I got a good look at the bird yesterday and I also got some OK photos of it. When I got home, I confirmed to myself it was the CASJ. However, I wanted to compare it to other scrub jays characteristics (such as the FLSJ) as a learning exercise; so I looked up the details of web. When done, I went and posted to IBLE and instead on identifying the bird I saw/confirmed, for some reason I inadvertently said I had seen the FLSJ…oops! My apologies for misnaming the bird and any constermation it may have caused.

Marty Marzinelli, Eagle