Thanks. Never ocurred to me but I did note the white tail feathers in the photo. I saw an immature Junco at the house the other day. Did not put the bird at the house and the one up on the moutain together. The one at the house was darker brown on the chest but an adult Junco was feeding it so I assumed it was an immature which I had never seen before.
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Yep. Pinkish bill for sure Jay.
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I hit send too soon. The female chipping sparrow would show more striping about her eyes.
Dean
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I believe this USA female Cassin’s finch.
Bird ID help
Yesterday we were birding the top of Schweitzer Mountain and came across this bird. I thought at first it was a Cassin’s Finch but upon closer inspection of the photo today I am not so sure. It may be an immature Chipping Sparrow. Can anyone assist? Did not hear it call so no help there. Also sorry if this is duplicated, had trouble sending. Thanks, Linda
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Speaking of rarified air, Larry, we were up at the border of Gem and Valley counties, at 8k ft, Wilson’s Peak, across from Snowbank Mtn. Here’s the checklist.
There was something else in Wilson’s Meadow warbling that I couldn’t quite nail down. It was a strenuous hike out so I was concentrating on keeping up with the pulmonary demands, especially when the two turkey vultures showed up above us… didn’t exactly inspire confidence.
I’ve noticed here at 2,700 ft some changes; rock wren are moving closer in to edges of town, as are horned larks. I’ve seen more eastern kingbirds than before, but sadly, hardly any hummers came through. Only have one set of black chinned. And the yellow breasted chats have quieted down to just a few whistles.
Liz Medes
Emmett
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hahaha Robert, kind of you to say “info” as opposed to another noun… 😉 In my “first life” I was a professional student…. MIT, ISU Pocatello, UC San Diego Medical School, ISU again, USAF, U Idaho, UNLasVegas……
but speaking of birds, they’ve stopped speaking hereabouts… so we need higher elevation than Treasure Valley ( we’re at 2600ft on the Boise River Greenbelt )
Need higher ground, as in Seven Devils, Snow Bank, Warm Lake, Trinity, where else ??
I ask this question annually because we keep hearing about new places to explore for high elevation birds =)
Larry
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Thanks for the heads up sounds great larry what did you do in your first life you are .more then a bucket full of info
Re: not a Bird, not a Plane, not Superman…..
awesome reminder thx Brian…!!! we’ll be looking for it with eyeballs, bins, scopes, and listening for owls =)
thanks too for directions…..
I’ve been reading about Halley’s 1910 appearance when Earth actually passed thru its tail, the comet was readily visible to the unaided eye, and my reason for reading this stuff was because my other Big Hobby is family history / genealogy / and I’ve been reading thru my grandparents’ 107 letters during 1908 – 1923, and on 19 May 1910 all life on Earth would be terminated by the comet’s tail, whereas my grandmother wrote on 26 May 1910 “well I see that we are all still here!” hahaha
this from wiki…..
The 1910 approach [of Halley’s], which came into naked-eye view around 10 April[63] and came to perihelion on 20 April,[63] was notable for several reasons: it was the first approach [ of Halley ] for which photographs exist, and the first for which spectroscopic data were obtained.[16] Furthermore, the comet made a relatively close approach of 0.15 AU,[63] making it a spectacular sight. On 19 May, Earth actually passed through the tail of the comet.[95][96] One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen,[97] which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas “would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.”[98] His pronouncement led to panicked buying of gas masks and quack “anti-comet pills” and “anti-comet umbrellas” by the public.[99] In reality, as other astronomers were quick to point out, the gas is so diffused that the world suffered no ill effects from the passage through the tail.[98]
More of that history… this 1910 approach of the comet added to the unrest in China on the eve of the Xinhai Revolution that would end the last dynasty in 1911.
Just for fun,
Larry