Monthly Archives: August 2022

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Global Shorebird Counts

September 1 through 7 are the global counts.  You can get more information at this link.

https://www.shorebirdconservation.org/global-shorebird-counts

It’s really easy if you use Ebird.  Complete your checklists as usual and the share your checklists with worldshorebirdsday (this is their Ebird user name).  
Denise Hughes

Caldwell, Idaho
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.  -George Bernard Shaw
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Green-backed Rufous

Had a juv male hummingbird visit feeder today, just once. Was there for about 3 min. A striking rufous color with an obvious green back. Sibley Birds states up to 5% Rufous will have a green back. Given the extraordinary number of migrating Rufous we’re seeing in E ID along Snake River corridor & fact that I’ve never seen an Allen’s on our place, sticking with a Green-backed Rufous. 

Going by nectar consumption looks like we’ve gone from a high of 30 diff’t hummers/day, now down to ~16. Today, Black-chinned, Rufous & Calliope. Vast majority of all types are juvs. In past, our hummer numbers start to drop after 1st WK of Sept. I keep feeder up til first of Oct, to help out stragglers.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot 

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Re: ID

Good points.

On Aug 27, 2022, at 3:32 PM, Carl Lundblad <carl.lundblad@…> wrote:


I think it’s a female Lesser Goldfinch based on the gray bill (generally pink on breeding American), yellow undertail coverts (American should be white), gray/dusky forehead and crown, darker gray/green mantle (vs. olive-yellow on American), plainer face lacking the bold eye arcs of American, apparently white wing bars and secondary edges (versus buffier and yellower on American).  

Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Corvallis, OR

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 2:12 PM Tom & Susan Soniville <tomnsueid@…> wrote:
Louisa and Ken,

Thanks for the ID. Just didn’t look right to me. We haven’t had juvenile American gold finches for a couple of years,so you memoryis failing me.
Tom
——– Original message ——–
From: “Ken Miracle via groups.io” <chukar28=icloud.com@groups.io>
Date: 8/27/22 2:32 PM (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Re: [IBLE] ID
Teach me to get in a hurry .. yeah that downward curve at the back of the top mandible looks American Goldfinch to me and the rest of the bill says your correct. Louisa … thank you for the catch.

On Aug 27, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Louisa Evers <elouisa603@…> wrote:

Don’t think the bill is right for a tanager.  Could be a juvenile American goldfinch molting into adult plumage.  Might be a female as well.

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Louisa Evers

elouisa603@…

Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
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

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Tom Soniville
Boise. North End



Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
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

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Re: ID

I think it’s a female Lesser Goldfinch based on the gray bill (generally pink on breeding American), yellow undertail coverts (American should be white), gray/dusky forehead and crown, darker gray/green mantle (vs. olive-yellow on American), plainer face lacking the bold eye arcs of American, apparently white wing bars and secondary edges (versus buffier and yellower on American).  

Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Corvallis, OR

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Re: ID

Teach me to get in a hurry .. yeah that downward curve at the back of the top mandible looks American Goldfinch to me and the rest of the bill says your correct. Louisa … thank you for the catch.

On Aug 27, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Louisa Evers <elouisa603@…> wrote:


Don’t think the bill is right for a tanager.  Could be a juvenile American goldfinch molting into adult plumage.  Might be a female as well.

—

Louisa Evers

elouisa603@…

Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
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