I was birding Mann Lake near Lewiston yesterday and came across these shore birds. I am not strong in my shorebirds identification. The two were quite large compared to the surrounding shorebirds. The smokey conditions did not help. I returned this morning but there were only Baird’s Sandpipers and 2 Greater Yellowlegs. If anyone can help me with the identification of them it would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds like the fall push of hummers is definitely following a path thru your direction, Bill. Ours simply never materialized this year. Sitting on back porch, now, enjoying a breeze, a new read & today, mainly, flocks of Chipping Sparrows pushing thru: 30 to 50+ in a flock, one after the other. BH Grosbeaks & Gray Catbirds are gone. Seeing patches of gold in our streamside willows & in narrow leaf cottonwoods & red leaves on the sumacs.
I’ve still got hummers and not much else. They are going through two cups a day of solution, so by energy balance 100 birds. I keep wanting to find them and they stick around, heaviest push at dawn and dusk and then stragglers during the day. I put up a sunflower feeder but no takers yet.
My hummers are also gone. I saw a single individual at one of my two feeders two days ago. Saw none yesterday or today. I guess this weekend I’ll pull the feeders & clean them up for next year.
On a brighter note, two fledgling horned owls have taken up residence at my place for the last week or so. Both are fairly tame, but one especially so. I’ve been able to get lots of nice photos of them, and have had two extremely close face to face encounters only 10-15 feet away without them being alarmed.
Last evening & this AM, Chipping Sparrows are on the move. Finding flocks of 30+, mainly working thru grit of gravel drive. Composed of adults & juveniles. No juncos, yet.
Just a handful of juv BH Grosbeaks & one juvenile BC Hummingbird still about. Pulled the hummingbird feeder, it keeps hitting wife’s petunia basket. Gray Catbirds are decreasing in number & Yellow Warblers are gone.
this last Monday, my brother and I were driving through hells canyon from Oxbow towards Cambridge, and paused for a rest stop at Woodhead Park. While stopped, I walked around in the 100 degree weather to look for some birds and spotted a potential scarlet tanager. My comments in my eBird checklist are extensive, and I have attached the link here:
