Late this afternoon, I was shocked to spot an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULL with the flock of Ring-billed and California Gulls at the Clark Fork
River Delta “Driftwood Yard” just north of Clark Fork, Idaho. As far as I
can tell, this is the earliest fall record for the state of Idaho. Details
and distant documentation photos in eBird:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59470938.

Good Birding,

Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID

since Missy’s been laid up with a sore foot, she’s been watching our feeders much more than I have
she reports (at minimum) 1 Calliope, 2-3 Rufous, and 5-10 Black-chins
also had a juv Lark Sparrow recently

wish we’d get more warblers and wrens thru our yard !!!!

Larry
W Boise

From: “lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 9:12:11 AM
Subject: [IBLE] Groups of Fall Migrants

This AM, am getting small, mixed groups, 6-8 birds each, of fall migrants. About 30 min after daybreak started finding: Wilson’s & Orange-crowned Warblers, W Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, House Wrens & Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Still have 2 hummingbirds at feeder: 1 ea juvenile male & female Black-chinned.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

NICE FIND !!!! and thx for reporting Jay

so, I might as well ask thi question…… has anyone seen pix of / heard more about / a Chestnut-sided Wobbler at Foote Park ??
mentioned to me this morning as other folks were looking with their cameras………
i don’t see anything on ebird about it, and i know rarities shoot straight thru as an alert, past the reviewers…….
i didn’t find the bird in 60+ min that I was there

thx
Larry

From: “Jay Carlisle carlislejay@yahoo.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 10:50:20 AM
Subject: [IBLE] Probable Hermit Warbler @ Blacks Cr Reservoir, Ada Co

In scattered willows @ ~43.457 -116.1374. Directly across channel from main parking area (with outhouse) but requires going upstream to dry crossing and likely some muddy feet/“mud-shoeing”.
Found by Heidi; Bryce, Cheryl, & I also here and Bryce getting some photos. Will eBird with pics/details later … immature female.

Jay

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In scattered willows @ ~43.457 -116.1374.  Directly across channel from main parking area (with outhouse) but requires going upstream to dry crossing and likely some muddy feet/“mud-shoeing”.
Found by Heidi; Bryce, Cheryl, & I also here and Bryce getting some photos.  Will eBird with pics/details later … immature female.
Jay

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This AM, am getting small, mixed groups, 6-8 birds each, of fall migrants. About 30 min after daybreak started finding: Wilson’s & Orange-crowned Warblers, W Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks, House Wrens & Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Still have 2 hummingbirds at feeder: 1 ea juvenile male & female Black-chinned.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Location off stone breaker road to sugar loaf camp ground cascade .photo
submitted to Merlin app.and verified seen today Richard rusnack Bob
kiernan

Wow! What a fun birding day! Those ravens must have been fun to see!

Four of us from Golden Eagle Audubon birded Bruneau Duck Ponds Friday
morning after a crop duster disrupted our Wednesday morning group trip
there. Highlights included at least 70 great and 2 snowy egrets; a young
black-crowned night heron; western, least, and Baird’s sandpipers; 2
semi-palmated plovers and many killdeer; greater and lesser yellowlegs;
long-billed dowitchers; avocets mostly in winter plumage now; black-necked
stilts; and a lone marbled godwit. Other species included large numbers of
ducks – mallards, pintails, wigeons, all 3 teal species, gadwall, and
shovelers; California quail, Canada geese; white pelicans; barn, bank,
cliff, and northern rough-winged swallows; ring-billed and California
gulls; eastern kingbird, song sparrows, yellow warblers, house finches, at
least one hummer, and black-billed magpies with a turkey vulture thrown in
as we returned to the car.

Afterwards, we went to Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park for lunch. While we
hadn’t really intended to bird there it turned out to be a fairly birdy
spot Friday with yellow, Townsend’s, and Wilson’s warblers, collared doves,
black-chinned hummers (at least 7) and a probable calliope, common
nighthawk, red-tailed hawk, eastern kingbird, and barn and bank swallows.
But the most astonishing sight was a ribbon of ravens that stretched from
horizon to horizon running roughly east-west and drifting slowly southward,
including at least 2 kettles. We estimated there were at least 500 birds
and we probably missed many. While I’ve seen crows in this and larger
numbers wintering in downtown Portland, I’ve never seen ravens in such
numbers. What a sight!
—
Louisa Evers
elouisa603@gmail.com

Took a trip to the shoshone basin hummer stations Wednesday while camped in the south hills. Hundreds still there bulking up for the big migration. I can’t describe the feeling of sitting alone watching them flit about. So many thanks to the awesome folks who keep about 50 feeders filled for the public’s enjoyment.

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This afternoon there was a Great Egret foraging in a pond on the Teton
River at Hog Hollow Bridge.  I’ve only seen a hand full of Great Egrets
up here. There have also been quite a few Solitary Sandpipers around
here lately, including a couple today in the same area as the egret, and
a single Northern Waterthrush. this morning, also on the Teton River.

Cliff

—
Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
cliffandlisa@octobersetters.com