To anyone who has made it past the subject line 🙂

I was simply perusing eBird checklists and found a Varied Thrush report,
with photo, of a single bird found by Ceredig Roberts at Blacks Creek Bird
Reserve! Nothing too crazy but a super neat bird for southern Idaho
nonetheless, although my experience in western Idaho is limited. The
checklist can be found here:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60237793

Good birding,

Austin Young
Pocatello

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Austin Young
younaust@isu.edu
Undergraduate Student
Ecology and Conservation Biology Club President
Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

And some of these Arctic Terns are making it inland, with individuals
documented yesterday/Sunday in Nevada and Montana. Take a close look at
any late Sterna terns you might encounter in the coming weeks!

Good Birding,

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, Idaho

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:04 AM LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible]
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> in case we have a seawatch fan on IBLE, take a peek at these lists posted
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> *From:* CALBIRDS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS@yahoogroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Brian Sullivan heraldpetrel@gmail.com [CALBIRDS]
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 28, 2019 10:05 PM
> *To:* CALBIRDS
> *Subject:* [CALBIRDS] Re: Epic seawatch from Point Pinos, Monterey
> County–Arctic Tern spectacle
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> And here’s what happened after I left. I should have stayed!
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> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 8:32 PM Brian Sullivan
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> In keeping with the unprecedented appearance of Arctic Terns close to
> shore this fall, this afternoon during 20-25 knot NW winds we had an
> amazing seawatch from Point Pinos that included hundreds (conservatively)
> of Arctic Terns, all three jaegers and skua, 5 shearwater species including
> 100+ Buller’s and 3 Manx, etc. It really was one of the best afternoons
> I’ve ever seen out there. My checklist is here for the time I spent this
> afternoon, but others stayed later and recorded ever more rarities:
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After seeing an eBird report of 3 Black-bellied Plovers, accompanied by a
beautiful photo by Ben Meredyk, at Mann Lake yesterday, I realized that
these were the same three Pluvialis that we saw and which I apparently
misidentified at long distance in the rain, terrible light, and through
soggy/foggy optics on Saturday. We should have sucked it up and slogged
across the mud for a better look, rather than relying too heavily on my
initial impression. Thanks to Ben and Co. for getting better documentation
of these birds. Both Black-bellied and American Golden-Plovers are very
uncommon to rare visitors to Mann Lake at this season, but the former is
probably more likely to be seen in multiples. Anyhow, apologies for the
confusion and good birding.

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, Idaho