The 2023 supplement to the AOS checklist includes the re-lumping of Pacific Slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers into Western Flycatcher. This “species” pair has long presented an impossible ID challenge so this news is very welcome. You can read more about it here: https://www.aba.org/aos-checklist-supplement-redux-v-2023/
Cliff
— Cliff and Lisa Weisse Island Park, Idaho cliffandlisa@…
The push southward of Rufous Hummingbirds continues. Today, has been adult males & females at about 3:1 Rufous to Black-chinneds. Definitely, a change at my immediate location for July. But, I’ll take it!
Only other birds of note were a few Solitary Sandpipers along the Snake River, seen while I was fly-fishing this morning. Since the trout were laughing at me, settled for another cool sighting. A mink working through ever nook & cranny along the opposite bank. I know, no feathers, but it was still neat to see!
That’s so interesting! I had never even heard of them before this and a domestic bird hadn’t crossed my mind! But now that I know, they won’t fool me again the next time they pop up somewhere!
My wife and I also saw a pair of Coturnix Quail on June 27 at the parking lot near the outhouse at the Corrals trailhead on Bogus Basin road. They were making very “non-Idaho bird” calls, and allowed us to get within 3-4 feet of them, deep in the grass. No
doubt in my mind that’s what they were.
Well, just had a different, yet welcome, summer sighting. An adult male Red-breasted Grosbeak just came into the feeder. Looked out kitchen window & there it was at the feeder. Grabbed the camera & snapped a few photos as quickly as I could. Have had RBGrosbeaks in the past, but rare. Checked my records & 1st sighting at our place was 8/20/2017.
Wow … I guess we were to high birding with Terry yesterday at the Mores Mountain Trail 🙂
On Jul 8, 2023, at 4:11 PM, Denise Hughes <deniseh449@…> wrote:
Terry Rich found a Dickcissel this morning. He thinks there might be a second bird about 50 yards past this bird.
There is a dickcissel on Big Willow Road. My Ebird checklist is at the spot where the bird is being seen.
The bird is actively singing from the top of sunflowers. It’s about 50-60 feet or so from the road.
Denise Hughes Caldwell, Idaho Any day might be a special one-you just had to go outside and see if it was.—-Kenn Kaufman
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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
Want to point out to folks that when setting location on this road for ebird checklists, it comes up Bluf Rd, which it isn’t. Street signage is clearly marked Big Willow Rd, running from its intersection with Bluff Rd east to Sucker Creek Rd.
I don’t know of a solution for that mapping problem but following the pin will find the location where the bird is actively singing and possibly nesting; playback I would think should be discouraged.
