Indeed, Denise. This has been 115 days of confinement while covering birding/fishing as much as possible in Gem Cty. But what a reward waited for us this week in Valley.
Liz Medes
Emmett
Re: Thank Godwit (marbled)
Nice find! I love large groups of unexpected birds. It becomes a WOW moment.
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Thank Godwit (marbled)
Still adding photos from a morning birding at Sugarloaf in Valley County. https://ebird.org/checklist/S71298275
But, the big surprise – which wouldn’t have happened without a bored spouse benched from the ice rink due to Covid 19, an electric trolling motor, and a startling view of them lifting off 200 yards away, was 100+ Marbled Godwits, parked on the east side near HWY 55 among Canadian geese, pelicans, and other waterfowl. What gorgeous critters.
Liz Medes
Emmett (the east side)
Yellow-billed Loon at Wolf Bay Lodge, North Idaho
Not my bird but wanted to get word out.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S71211441
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Re: Idaho Birds and IBRC AOS/Website updates
Yes. I’m to blame. I took on the task of updating the checklist. I found the abundance codes far too cumbersome for readability on a small field checklist and made the choice to eliminate the codes because they are located in the list of Idaho review species, which can also be found on the IBRC website. This downloadable excel file can be found at – ibrc.idahobirds.net/review-species.
Thanks for the feedback
Darren Clark
Rexburg, ID
Re: Idaho Birds and IBRC AOS/Website updates
The new checklist is missing the season, abundance, and region information
found on the 2007 edition, which I always found informative and valuable.
found on the 2007 edition, which I always found informative and valuable.
Re: accipitors
gotta love the drama we might witness out there, waaay better than the telly =)
and you could get so lucky as to be hit in the head by a Barred Owl, yeeeeouch, or have a goshawk rip the hat off your head if you’re too close to their nest 😉
over the years we’ve (loosely? informally?) referred to the beasties as nocturnal and diurnal raptors…
Re: accipitors
That’s kind of you, Larry. I had excellent, close views of the birds and recorded their calls at length, but lacked even modest experience. 🙂
Aren’t owls and hawks more or less on the same side separated by day and night? As I watched these Cooper’s Hawks, they flushed a great horned owl out of a black locust and chased it away in close pursuit. It was a real-time drama.
Re: accipitors
SSHA and COHA can be a difficult separation at times, esp if you can’t see much of the bird for overall structure, don’t hear vocals, etc…..
I’ve seen nationally-known, very experienced birders “stuck” on making a call one way or the other
Re: Whimbrel at Blacks Creek
Ha. I thought they were Sharp-shinned Hawks.