Thank you for posting that, Denise! 😀
I just uploaded some new edited photos to the eBird checklist. https://ebird.org/checklist/S148818430
I’m beginning to wonder if it was just a really beat up NRWS, and that is why it looked like it had a pretty notched tail. As to why it looked bigger than the surrounding swallows and why I could pick it out of the crowd as it was flying, I’m not sure. It’s behavior was a bit different and slightly more erratic than the other swallows. I don’t think I ever heard it vocalize either 🙁
Thank you to anyone for your thoughts! 😀
Have a great weekend! 😀
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Aidan Lorenz
Caldwell
Keep the reports coming. I find them interesting.
Early this morning I heard a small flock of Canada Geese fly over my house. It’s getting to be that time.
On Tuesday of this week at Big Bayhorse Lake near Challis I was pleased to see a Bald Eagle. According to my friends, it made a successful catch.
Diann Stone
Boise Depot Bench
The only hummingbird visits today were by a juv female Calliope, came in briefly, 3 times. Best birds were a Red-naped Sapsucker &, assuming by range map—as gave no call, a Cordilleran Flycatcher working through stream bank willows. A couple of juvenile Black-headed Grosbeaks hit the sunflower seeds on platform feeder. Otherwise, Fall migration is rapidly quieting down, my direction. A definite change in weather forecast, starting tonight, with cooler temps & rain.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Aidan Lorenz had a probable purple Martin at Ted Trueblood this afternoon.
You’re welcome, Brian. Gray jays also frequent the cabin, interested in Corn Chex offered by the owner. 🙂
Most likely Great Egrets .. they have been quite plentiful in the Treasure Valley for several years. There have been 11 to 12 at Blacks Creek Bird Reserve for several weeks.
From our house this morning on Warm Springs Mesa, looking down hill toward the Boise River, we say a flock of about eight relatively large, bright white birds flying along the river corridor. All white, no dark markings. Seemed about the size of geese – not as large as, say, Great Blue Heron. Fluid, full wingbeats, about 3/second. So, faster beats than GBHE or GREG.
I see that Snowys are found along the corridor, but infrequently, and almost always singles or twos, not more. Could there be more of them if they are migrating? Or some other species?
Thanks for any education you can provide.
Gary T. Smith
Boise, Idaho
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
From our house this morning on Warm Springs Mesa, looking down hill toward the Boise River, we say a flock of about eight relatively large, bright white birds flying along the river corridor. All white, no dark markings. Seemed about the size of geese – not as large as, say, Great Blue Heron. Fluid, full wingbeats, about 3/second. So, faster beats than GBHE or GREG.
I see that Snowys are found along the corridor, but infrequently, and almost always singles or twos, not more. Could there be more of them if they are migrating? Or some other species?
Thanks for any education you can provide.
Gary T. Smith
Boise, Idaho
Very cool sighting! In 35 yrs along the Snake River of E ID, I’ve seen just one, doing its “bittern pose” in front of some cattails along backyard stream.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
I flushed an American bittern at Eagle Island State Park on the trail behind the abattoir this morning. After years of walks at the park this is the first bittern I’ve seen. Unfortunately it flew off to the west and looked like it crossed out of the park boundary. Keep an eye out as there could be more moving through.
Great photos of RB Nuthatch! Looks like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet also came to check out the feeder, in last photo. Thanks for sharing.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
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