We have had a male Rufous here, sporadically, since the 10th. Two females showed up over the weekend. Far fewer black-chinned than usual for this time of year.

Patty Gailey
Blackfoot
(East of town, near the Blackfoot River)

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We still have several rufous(M&F), but who knows how many?

I’m noticing a slack off in feeder consumption over the last week. After at least one per day and often two per day over the last month, we’re down to an empty feeder every few days. They showed up a week or so earlier this year and maybe are heading south earlier too. Of course a second brood could be about to hit and up go the numbers, but I doubt it.

Bill Moore
Hoot Owl Rd
Inkom

> On Jul 21, 2019, at 8:41 PM, lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible] wrote:
>
> Just wondering if anybody else is noting a push of Rufous Hummingbirds? I had a female come into the nectar feeder about a week ago & have seen 2 different male Rufous hitting it today. In fact, they’ve kept the resident Black-chinned pair away. Not complaining, as I always enjoy the brilliant rufous red of the males.
>
> And, realize that Rufous start their fall migration by July. Just that at my location, I usually get the last of their push south in September. The ones coming through my place by then are usually females & juveniles. Nice treat to be getting the earlier males.
>
> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
>
>

Yes, About 2 weeks now, consistently a few in S Nampa, only one adult male seen, the rest have been female.
Cheers, Rich

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From: lcarrigan_55@yahoo.com [ible]
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 8:41 PM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Rufous Hummingbirds

 
Just wondering if anybody else is noting a push of Rufous Hummingbirds? I had a female come into the nectar feeder about a week ago & have seen 2 different male Rufous hitting it today. In fact, they’ve kept the resident Black-chinned pair away. Not complaining, as I always enjoy the brilliant rufous red of the males.

And, realize that Rufous start their fall migration by July. Just that at my location, I usually get the last of their push south in September. The ones coming through my place by then are usually females & juveniles. Nice treat to be getting the earlier males.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Just wondering if anybody else is noting a push of Rufous Hummingbirds? I had a female come into the nectar feeder about a week ago & have seen 2 different male Rufous hitting it today. In fact, they’ve kept the resident Black-chinned pair away. Not complaining, as I always enjoy the brilliant rufous red of the males.

And, realize that Rufous start their fall migration by July. Just that at my location, I usually get the last of their push south in September. The ones coming through my place by then are usually females & juveniles. Nice treat to be getting the earlier males.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

SE Asia.  Indonesia ?? 

BOB

On Sunday, July 21, 2019, 1:48 PM, LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible] wrote:

uh-oh……..
From: “Louisa Evers elouisa603@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 8:36:00 AM
Subject: [IBLE] Re: fall migration

Short-tailed magpies?  Are you sure these aren’t just young of the year black-billed magpies?–
Louisa Evers
elouisa603@gmail.com

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uh-oh…….

From: “Louisa Evers elouisa603@gmail.com [ible]”
To: “IBLE”
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 8:36:00 AM
Subject: [IBLE] Re: fall migration

Short-tailed magpies? Are you sure these aren’t just young of the year black-billed magpies?
—
Louisa Evers
[ mailto:elouisa603@gmail.com | elouisa603@gmail.com ]

Short-tailed magpies? Are you sure these aren’t just young of the year
black-billed magpies?
—
Louisa Evers
elouisa603@gmail.com

So, this evening, after getting lawn mowed & garden tended, I was sitting on deck, doing some birding. Saw my first juvenile Cedar Waxwings of the season flycatching, so they’ve left the nest. And juvenile BH Grosbeaks are hitting the seeds, now. Young Robins are busy in the lawn going after worms. The adult BC Hummingbirds are busy at the feeder & juveniles should show soon.

Then, for only my 2nd time in 30 yrs here, I watched a female Yellow Warbler frantically trying to keep up with the appetite of her juvenile BH Cowbird. And it made me wonder, how does a Cowbird know it’s a Cowbird, if raised by a surrogate. So, I Googled it. Turns out, this has been studied. Lab raised Cowbirds by a surrogate mom, eventually adopt characteristics & try to mate with the surrogate species. Wild ones, don’t.

Through transmitter studies, it’s been determined that the female Cowbird that laid her egg in a surrogate’s nest, never disappears. Hangs around & at about 20 days of age, the juvenile Cowbird sneaks out at night from surrogate’s mom roost & takes up with real mom! Learning Cowbird ways, only to return by morning, and get fed all day by the surrogate. I have an entirely new appreciation for Cowbirds! That’s pretty slick…someone else does all the work & mom Cowbird gets to do fun stuff with junior, teaching the ins & outs of Cowbird-ism.

Now, if I could only convince my son & daughter-in-law to let us have our grandson all day, everyday & they could take him back at night. He would still be theirs…and we could do all the “hard” stuff…spoil, feed him wrong foods, play, etc!

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Birders,
from where we roost, looks like “Southward-bound” or at least “drifting-about” is The Happening Thing
as of this morning we see peeps and other shorebirds showing up, swallows getting restless, and we’re seeing massive gatherings of Short-tailed Magpies
these appear to be a silent variant of the almost-always-very-vocal Black-billed Magpie and may be more distantly related to the somewhat-less-vocal-and-more-westerly Yellow-billed Magpie
these STMA exhibit another behavioral difference (other than being silent) – they form gangs of 30+ and kind of “wash over the landscape” like locusts do….
😉 Larry

Nice find Tom — we had a couple Lesser Scaup out at Indian Creek on
Sunday as well.

Scott