Hi Jason,I’m fairly familiar with domestic duck breeds, and my guess is that’s a hybrid. Based on the bird’s coloring and size, my thought is a Campbell Duck x Mallard. Look up images of Campbells, and you’ll see that the body coloring is very similar to the bird you saw.Hope this answers your question. Kristin Araki
——– Original message ——–From: “Jason Talbot jason.talbot1@yahoo.com [ible]”
I can’t figure this one out. Any idea what I have here? https://ebird.org/checklist/S61595556Jason
Fascinating Blue Jay reports still coming in. My 3 continue hitting the feeder daily. I read T Watkins’ report from Last Chance earlier today & just read the others. A couple of weeks ago, I saw a Blue Jay in Ashton, just down the hill from Island Park. So, the jays are visiting diff’t altitudes & vegetation types from conifers to cottonwoods.
Tonight & tomorrow a snow front is supposed to move in, followed by high pressure with clearing skies & colder lows by the weekend. I’ll be curious to see how many of the jays remain or if it bothers them in the least. The one from last year over-wintered at our place with temps dropping into neg teen lows & snows piling to sev feet on the level. Didn’t seem to phase it, but I did keep the feeder filled. Keep the reports coming. Again, fascinating.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Me too…..
BTW here’s the ebird record high count in Idaho, until today, eh?
267 [ https://ebird.org/species/blujay/US-ID | Blue Jay ] 8 [ https://ebird.org/checklist/S25344013 | 7 Oct 2015 ] [ https://ebird.org/profile/MzAxOTAx/US-ID | Frederick Erland ]
LA
From: “Diann Stone dstoneak2id@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “tntbutters54”
Cc: “IBLE”
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:47:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Blue Jays
Wow! Thanks for your post today. I’ll be interested in more of your observations about the behaviors of the two types of Jay’s when they are visible to each other.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 9:39 PM [ mailto:tntbutters54@gmail.com | tntbutters54@gmail..com ] [ible] < [ mailto:ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com | ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com ] > wrote:
I have been seeing Blue Jays in my neighborhood now for at least a month and today I was taking pictures of one in my yard when it was joined by another and then another until I had six feeding in my front yard with others calling from the back yard. I looked that way only to see a Steller’s on my roof when it was joined by another and then another until there were four which joined the six Blue Jays in the front yard but not feeding with them. I continued hearing other Blue Jays calling from behind my house. It was pretty amazing.
Steve Butterworth
Idaho Falls
Either this is a strange fluke, or is the Blue Jay range expanding? Last winter, as I recall, there were rare reports of Blue Jays seen in Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, and Rigby, but almost always only a single bird. This year there are more reports of Blue Jays, and in multiples. Similar to what you’re seeing, over the past month or so our neighborhood (Cottonwood Hollow, Labelle, NE of Rigby) has been seeing multiple Blue Jays, and Steller’s Jays quite regularly. This week I’ve had 3 BJ and 4 Steller’s all at the same time.
Michael D. Hunter
+1-435-830-2285
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Sent: 19 November, 2019 9:40 PM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Blue Jays
I have been seeing Blue Jays in my neighborhood now for at least a month and today I was taking pictures of one in my yard when it was joined by another and then another until I had six feeding in my front yard with others calling from the back yard. I looked that way only to see a Steller’s on my roof when it was joined by another and then another until there were four which joined the six Blue Jays in the front yard but not feeding with them. I continued hearing other Blue Jays calling from behind my house. It was pretty amazing.
Steve Butterworth
Idaho Falls
Wow! Thanks for your post today. I’ll be interested in more of your
observations about the behaviors of the two types of Jay’s when they are
visible to each other.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 9:39 PM tntbutters54@gmail.com [ible] < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I have been seeing Blue Jays in my neighborhood now for at least a month
> and today I was taking pictures of one in my yard when it was joined by
> another and then another until I had six feeding in my front yard with
> others calling from the back yard. I looked that way only to see a
> Steller’s on my roof when it was joined by another and then another until
> there were four which joined the six Blue Jays in the front yard but not
> feeding with them. I continued hearing other Blue Jays calling from behind
> my house. It was pretty amazing.
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> Steve Butterworth
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> Idaho Falls
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I have been seeing Blue Jays in my neighborhood now for at least a month and today I was taking pictures of one in my yard when it was joined by another and then another until I had six feeding in my front yard with others calling from the back yard. I looked that way only to see a Stellerâs on my roof when it was joined by another and then another until there were four which joined the six Blue Jays in the front yard but not feeding with them. I continued hearing other Blue Jays calling from behind my house. It was pretty amazing.
Steve Butterworth
Idaho Falls
I can’t figure this one out. Any idea what I have here? https://ebird.org/checklist/S61595556
Jason
Just found the Brant here, yay! Thx again
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 1:17 PM, Sandra Zarate sanzar5@icloud.com [ible] wrote:
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By the time I got home today, I had 40 birds (my fifth day in a row of 40 or
more), but then I saw the postings about the Brant being at the Idaho
Transportation Department (aka ITD). I had circled the grounds earlier, but
I think he was hiding. So of course I had to get back on my bike and go back
to ITD. That’s where I met Luis (the photographer who gave us the original 3
photos) and his co-worker, Tony, who was the first to find the bird about a
week ago. They were standing about 20 feet away from the Brant, and I would
not have seen it but for figuring “these 2 guys must be looking at something
special.” They were, and it was.
So Luis and Tony told me the GWF Goose was also there, but I again dipped
and scouted all the way to Veterans Pond. Then, on the way back, Paul,
another birder, pulled over to tell me that “my” Brant and White-fronted
Goose were still at ITD. This time I bushwhacked across the back lot at ITD
to find the White-fronted, giving me 42 birds for the day. When I got back
around to where the Brant had been, there was quite a crowd of birders,
photographers and ITD employees (who were wondering what all the excitement
was about). Who knows, maybe we’ll infect some of them. 😉
A great way to spend the day.
Tom McCabe, Boise
It’s pretty cool to have two species of particular interest in close
proximity to each other.
Diann Stone. Boise
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 1:50 PM Sandra Zarate sanzar5@icloud.com [ible] < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Tom Mcabe and Luis say the Greater white fronted goose is at ITD on the
> field where the Brant was first sighted as of 1:40pm
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> Sent from my iPhone
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