Cool … I ran into Blue Jays and Steller’s Jays today in Bellvue while looking for a Pileated Woodpecker … no luck on the Pileated again 🙂

> On Oct 25, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Joyce Pole jgpole@cableone.net [ible] wrote:
>
>
> We have had two “firsts” at our backyard feeders in Idaho Falls this week.. On Oct. 21 we had a Stellar Jay, which has continued to visit, and then just this morning 2 Blue Jays. We were used to seeing Stellars when we lived in Teton Valley, but that was 15 years ago!
> Joyce Pole
>
>

Ken Miracle
chukar28@icloud.com
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5

We have had two “firsts” at our backyard feeders in Idaho Falls this week. On Oct. 21 we had a Stellar Jay, which has continued to visit, and then just this morning 2 Blue Jays. We were used to seeing Stellars when we lived in Teton Valley, but that was 15 years ago!
Joyce Pole

Here is a checklist with photos:

https://ebird.org/checklist/S60918808

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:53 AM Austin Young
wrote:

> Super cool news,
> Right now there is a Pacific loon among a couple hundred common loons
> above the dam. Also, 7 scoters:
>
> 5 Surf Scoter
> 1 White-winged Scoter
> 1 Black Scoter
>
> The scoters are all associating together right at the dam. Viewable easily
> from the little gravel “spit” that borders the highway there on the
> reservoir side.
>
> Austin Young
> Pocatello
>
> —
> Austin Young
> younaust@isu.edu
> Undergraduate Student
> Ecology and Conservation Biology Club President
> Idaho State University
> Pocatello, Idaho
>

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

Congrats to the person who fount it and those who have seen it since. Super!

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 11:13 AM Carl Lundblad carl.lundblad@gmail.com [ible]
wrote:

>
>
> A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW was at the spooky abandoned Syringa Trailer Park
> ponds, east of Moscow in Latah County, this morning. From the SW corner of
> the ponds, look west to the blue and white trailer. The sparrow was in the
> shrub on the east side of that trailer.. Not much on the ponds except a
> handful of American Wigeon.
>
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Carl Lundblad
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>

That’s exciting! I think Pacific Loons look incredibly elegant, so
photogenic.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 11:26 AM Austin Young austinyoung234@gmail.com [ible]
wrote:

>
>
> Super cool news,
> Right now there is a Pacific loon among a couple hundred common loons
> above the dam.. Also, 7 scoters:
>
> 5 Surf Scoter
> 1 White-winged Scoter
> 1 Black Scoter
>
> The scoters are all associating together right at the dam. Viewable easily
> from the little gravel “spit” that borders the highway there on the
> reservoir side.
>
> Austin Young
> Pocatello
>
> —
> Austin Young
> younaust@isu.edu
> Undergraduate Student
> Ecology and Conservation Biology Club President
> Idaho State University
> Pocatello, Idaho
>
>

Super cool news,
Right now there is a Pacific loon among a couple hundred common loons above
the dam. Also, 7 scoters:

5 Surf Scoter
1 White-winged Scoter
1 Black Scoter

The scoters are all associating together right at the dam. Viewable easily
from the little gravel “spit” that borders the highway there on the
reservoir side.

Austin Young
Pocatello

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