Horsehoe Bridge river access, Teton, Idaho, US
Sep 3, 2017 9:40 AM – 10:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.3 mile(s)
Comments: parked at river access and walked back along road to west: willows, hawthorne, sloughs, migrant survey
24 species
Susan Patla, Teton Valley

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 17 flew over high; going to east
Gadwall (Mareca strepera) 17 feeding in small ditch slough
American Wigeon (Mareca americana) 10
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 20 4 in river; many on slough north of road
Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) X
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1
Sora (Porzana carolina) 1 heard calling from slough south of road
American Coot (Fulica americana) 8 on large slough north of road
Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis) X heard calling in distance
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 1
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) 10
Common Raven (Corvus corax) 1
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 6
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 2
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 1
Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) 2 singing
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 3 feeding in willows
Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) 1
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) 1 immature
Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) 1 one sang once from meadows north of road
Brewer’s Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) 6
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 3

Activity around the place has really quieted down. I haven’t seen a Black-headed Grosbeak at the feeder in 2 days. So, I was surprised to see a Grosbeak just 30 min ago at the sunflower seed feeder. I’m hoping it returns, it fed for about 5 min & I got all the field markings: an immature male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. It had a bold, striped head with black wings & strong white patches in the wings. White rump but breast was heavily streaked with a rosy-red breast, with streaks through the red, whitish below the red and light brownish streaked flanks. On the Cornell website, there is a photo identified as an immature male that is almost the same as the one I saw. But, mine had more red in the breast than their photo, otherwise almost identical.

I’ll keep a watch and see if it reappears. It flew up into a cottonwood but could not relocate. I quickly refilled my feeders. I’ll post again if I see it, if it makes a regular appearance & if folks want to see it. Certainly, gives pause as to being immature. Also, makes the 2nd Rose-breasted as fall migration has started. Definitely, a different bird than the adult male previously reported.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

Thx David. Say hi to Shawneen pls.  On flight to SEATAC now and hope to arrive abt 4pm.
Monte

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The gull is being seen again today, most recently from Kayu Kayu Park in Shoreline, where it was late Friday. It was AWOL most of yesterday before being relocated at the Everett marina late in the afternoon. It has really moved around.

Dave Irons

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The gull is being seen again today, most recently from Kayu Kayu Park in Shoreline, where it was late Friday. It was AWOL most of yesterday before being relocated at the Everett marina late in the afternoon. It has really moved around.

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The rarities continue for Heidi & crew at the river!! She just sent this pic of an immature Blackpoll they just banded. https://ibo.boisestate.edu/boiseriver/ (location/directions on this webpage)

Jay

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Very different here also from 2 weeks ago (record setting day for
varieties) . Today – Violet green swallows, cassin’s finches, blackheaded
grosbeaks, warblers, flycatchers all gone! Very few remaining hummingbirds.
spotted a few mountain chickadees, house wrens, red breasted nuthatches and
juncos.

vern

Started to do a shorebird survey for the World Shorebird count but will
return this pm and do the whole thing to be thorough. I didn’t have time
to get to all the birds in the distance, with 1 or more flocks of peeps
etc. Did see:
1 Black-necked Stilt
3 American Avocets
4 LB Dowitchers
1 Semipalmated Plover
6 Greater Yellowlegs
7 Lesser Yellowlegs
many Killdeer
40 or more White-faced Ibis, will try to get closer this pm to scan
faces and eyes.

Also enjoyed
5 American White Pelicans
60 + Franklin’s Gulls – and I’ll scan carefully this pm as a few reports
of Sabine’s Gulls have come from Oregon today
Lots of Ring-bills, 5+ California Gulls
etc.
Sunflowers have ripening seeds with Savannah Sparrows and blackbirds
feasting on them.
Judy Meredith, temporarily in Boise, jmeredit@bendnet.com

Guess it was good I stopped yesterday at Market from what others are saying about the lack of migrants today.

West Windrow, Jefferson, Idaho, US
Sep 1, 2017 1:20 PM – 2:40 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: Hiked the trail from south to north and back again. Was very quiet at first on this hot day but birds started to forage.
7 species (+1 other taxa)

Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) 1 roosting near north end
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1
Empidonax sp. (Empidonax sp.) 1 Two different flycatchers seen but silent; one was likely Dusky
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) 2

Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla) 1 Clear view of this bird: complete white eye ring, gray head, nape only slightly contrasted to head with gray tones, underside yellow except for small white area right at base of legs. Undertail coverts brighter yellow than chest and rest of underside. Actively foraging in shrubs next to trail about 5-7 feet high. I played the call note and bird flew up to top of shrub and responded with a short song phrase. Sounded similar to the call note and song in I Bird Pro for western birds.

Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) 1 Likely more than one bird but I just saw one at a time in the middle and south portion of the windrow so I may have been pushing it. Very good looks: Yellow face and chest with dark eye patch, 2 white wing bars, greenish nape, black streaks on side of chest and flanks.White outer tail feathers. Actively foraging in windrow.

Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) 10 Many Wilson’s throughout the windrow, some with much more obvious black caps than others. Probably undercounted this species.
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 2 Pink-sided

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38958132

No sighting today of the Flycatcher. The number of Warblers is also much smaller than yesterday

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

Big Change from yesterday. Haven’t seen a single Warbler this AM. Appears yesterday was a big push that’s quieted today. Not even getting the Black-headed Grosbeaks to the feeder this AM. With the brightening moon & clear nights, there must have been a mass exodus. I am seeing: W Wood-Pewees, Dusky Flycatchers, Am Goldfinches, Red-breasted Nuthatches & Song Sparrows.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot