Hi,
Thanks for the find Tom McCabe and for posting Larry. The bird is still in
evergreen west of bathroom. In tree that is forked near the bottom.
Danette Henderson

Voicemail from Tom McCabe that he’s looking at a female – same vicinity as where Red-naped & Red-breasted have been seen in past winters!
Jay

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lemme add that the bird was consistently near the top of an evergreen nearest (and west of) the loo, within 75 m of the RBSA spot of a couple winters ago, hope this helps the chasers and listers… =)

—– Original Message —–
From: “LARRY ARNOLD”
To: “IBLE”
Cc: “Larry Arnold”
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 12:57:44 PM
Subject: WISA along Boise River Greenbelt at Lander WTP, Apr 5, 2018

great find, Tom!! =)
apparently this is a sapsucker HOT SPOT

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From: ebird-checklist@cornell.edu
To: larnold47@cableone.net
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 12:52:14 PM
Subject: eBird Report – Boise Rive Greenbelt at Lander WTP, Apr 5, 2018

Boise Rive Greenbelt at Lander WTP, Ada, Idaho, US
Apr 5, 2018 12:25 PM – 12:35 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: in light drizzle, 45 oc/c
2 species

Williamson’s Sapsucker 1 female plumage, thanks for calling us Tom, great find, woohoo !!!
Northern Flicker 1

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This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

I just got my 67th specie for my yard – a Spotted Towhee, with great rufous sides. When I looked out at my feeder area about 15 minutes ago, I saw a bird flit that I thought, “that’s really large for a Junco”, so I got out my camera and binocs and – sure enough – it was my first-ever Spotted Towhee here. An exciting start to the day. Everyone have a great one! Jonathan, HSB

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Swainson’s Hawks seemed to arrive right on time again this year. I saw
my first in Pocatello on the 2nd and there were a few reported on March
30-31. There’s an interesting discussion of early arriving (or not)
Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks taking place on the ebird review group
right now and I want to share a couple things I found very interesting.
Tony Leukering posted links to a couple of his articles detailing
identification pitfalls, some of which are not on most of our radar.
They’re at:

https://cobirds.org/cfo/ColoradoBirds/InTheScope/30.pdf
http://cowyebird.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-arrival-of-swainsons-hawks.html?m=1

Check out the photo of an adult Redtail at the first link. A very
interesting bird. The other thing I found really cool is looking at
eBird maps for the month of March for both species. There are plenty of
records for southern locations and a scattering of northerly records for
both species. However if you click the “Explore Rich Media” checkbox at
the right of the map (checking this box eliminates points for checklists
that don’t include photos or other media) all the Broad-winged records
north of North Carolina and Tennessee and all the interior west records
north of southern Idaho and Oregon disappear. ALL of them. Strong
evidence to support that Swainson’s Hawks rarely move north ahead of the
main migration pulse. Here’s a link to the map for Idaho:
https://ebird.org/map/swahaw?neg=true&env.minX=-133.4779375&env.minY=39.57926189552747&env.maxX=-94.8060625&env.maxY=51.04746231191178&zh=true&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=on&bmo=3&emo=3&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2018
Check out all the northerly records then click the rich media box and
watch the result.

So if ever you find one early, even only 2-3 days, remember how
important it is to get photos to document the occurrence.

Cliff

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

If anyone finds Marbled Godwits coming through this month, I still need one for Idaho, and I always find out too late each year…so please contact me, if possible, as soon as discovered. Thank you!!! Jonathan Barnett, HSB 208-869-5164

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From: ible@yahoogroups.com on behalf of LARRY ARNOLD larnold47@cableone.net [ible]
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 10:40:22 AM
To: IBLE
Subject: [IBLE] long FUN day of birding yesterday, 14+ hrs

Missy and I birded SW Idaho in Ada, Elmore, and Owyhee Counties, focusing on seven hot spots (with 30+ stops between them), we found 80 sp, highlighted by 23 sp of waterfowl, 5 sp shorebirds, 5 sp swallows……
In hideous and relentless wind that rendered our scopes useless at times, thus we came up short on some expected passerine sp
But here we are – April is a big-time month for migration and new year birds, eh? =)

Near Kuna WTP, Missy found us a leucistic/albino Brewers Blackbird (best guess), but we weren’t close enough decide if it was a true albino, nonetheless very stark looking!

Good Boid’n,
Larry

Missy and I birded SW Idaho in Ada, Elmore, and Owyhee Counties, focusing on seven hot spots (with 30+ stops between them), we found 80 sp, highlighted by 23 sp of waterfowl, 5 sp shorebirds, 5 sp swallows……
In hideous and relentless wind that rendered our scopes useless at times, thus we came up short on some expected passerine sp
But here we are – April is a big-time month for migration and new year birds, eh? =)

Near Kuna WTP, Missy found us a leucistic/albino Brewers Blackbird (best guess), but we weren’t close enough decide if it was a true albino, nonetheless very stark looking!

Good Boid’n,
Larry

Last night’s storm brought in some birds I haven’t been seeing in quantity.
At Quinn’s Pond there was a raft of Northern Shovelers, a bird I rarely see
at Quinn’s. There was also a pair of Lesser Scaup, m+f, first on the Simplot
pond and then later on Quinn’s.

At Silver Lake there was another raft of N. Shovelers, plus a smaller group
of both Ring-neck Ducks and Greater Scaup.

And despite the wind there were quite a few YR Warblers signaling their
presence as I rode along. Plus, at Esther Simplot, I had a flyover by a Bald
Eagle on the way out and an Osprey on the way back. While Osprey are easy to
find down at the west end of the greenbelt, they still are not all that
common up at “my” end.

Tom McCabe, Boise

Looks like April Fool’s to me…

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From: ible@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Denise Hughes deniseh449@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 4:03:34 PM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Fwd: [BIRDCHAT] Malibu Lagoon, CA hosts extremely rare Asian bird

I wish I could chase this. Good luck to anyone who does.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

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From: Chuck & Lillian >
Date: April 2, 2018 at 2:47:32 PM MDT
To: >
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Malibu Lagoon, CA hosts extremely rare Asian bird
Reply-To: Chuck & Lillian >

In case you missed yesterday’s report, you can catch up with it here.
The fabulous sighting of Ehler’s Sandhopper-Warbler.
https://smbasblog.com/2018/04/01/malibu-lagoon-hosts-extremely-rare-asian-bird/

Chuck Almdale
North Hills, Ca.

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I wish I could chase this. Good luck to anyone who does.

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

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*From:* Chuck & Lillian
*Date:* April 2, 2018 at 2:47:32 PM MDT
*To:*
*Subject:* *[BIRDCHAT] Malibu Lagoon, CA hosts extremely rare Asian bird*
*Reply-To:* Chuck & Lillian

In case you missed yesterday’s report, you can catch up with it here.
The fabulous sighting of Ehler’s Sandhopper-Warbler.
https://smbasblog.com/2018/04/01/malibu-lagoon-hosts-
extremely-rare-asian-bird/

Chuck Almdale
North Hills, Ca.

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