DUSKY FLYCATCHER and Harris’s Sparrow on the Clearwater River near Lewiston

I participated in today’s Lewiston-Clarkston CBC, covering the north side of the Clearwater River from Memorial Bridge to the eastern edge of the circle near Spalding.  My highlight was a shocking DUSKY FLYCATCHER at the Upper Hog Island Boat Ramp: https://ebird.org/checklist/S77758521.  There is only one previous winter record of this species in eBird for the northwestern US north of California, one that I found nearby (at Mann Lake) on Thanksgiving 2018 and that lingered until early December.  Other highlights in my territory included a HARRIS’S SPARROW and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at nearby Goose Pasture Habitat Management Unit: https://ebird.org/checklist/S77758548.

Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Moscow, Idaho

Northern Shrike

Saw this bird just before noon along Idaho Hwy. 51 south of Mountain Home, Elmore County. Was 4 miles or so south of Bruneau, Owyhee County.

Alan Gregory
Mountain Home

 

Alan C Gregory
Lt. Col., USAF, Ret.
Mountain Home, ID
Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member
Member, North American Butterfly Association