Warblers are rapidly tapering. I’ve seen one each Wilson’s & MacGillivray’s yesterday, the rest have been Yellow-rumpeds (Audubon’s). White-crowned Sparrows were common yesterday & just about absent today, being replaced by DE Juncos. Still a few RB Nuthatches about. Best bird today was a Swainson’s Thrush, but it’s appearance heralds the beginning of the end of fall migration, at least in my immediate area.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Thank you, Wendy, for sharing your experiences and sightings with us. Your
emails were enthusiastic and encouraging. It was really fun seeing birds
from your point of view even though I wasn’t free to go see them for
myself. Safe travels. It’s clear you’ll enjoy birding wherever you go.
Diann Stone
Boise Depot Bench
On Sep 29, 2017 7:01 PM, “damnempid damnempid@yahoo.com [ible]” < ible-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings, Birders!
>
> We crossed the Idaho border into Nevada today so my opportunities to add
> more birds to my Idaho list have ended. We had a grand time exploring and
> birding, primarily in Custer County, and can highly recommend the area for
> birders and nature enthusiasts. For you folks that always travel the major
> freeways north-south through the state, might I recommend you try Hwy 93 on
> your next trip, especially through Custer County.
>
> We don’t plan to return anytime soon so I will be unsubscribing from the
> listserv. Thanks for all the great birding info over the past five months!
>
> Good birding,
> Wendy McCrady
>
>
Greetings, Birders!
We crossed the Idaho border into Nevada today so my opportunities to add more birds to my Idaho list have ended. We had a grand time exploring and birding, primarily in Custer County, and can highly recommend the area for birders and nature enthusiasts. For you folks that always travel the major freeways north-south through the state, might I recommend you try Hwy 93 on your next trip, especially through Custer County.
We don’t plan to return anytime soon so I will be unsubscribing from the listserv. Thanks for all the great birding info over the past five months!
Good birding,Wendy McCrady
They were indeed! Just as we were heading out on our bike ride. Bird #8 out of my daily 30 (and not seen since last spring).
Tom McCabe, Boise
From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jflyons@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:41 AM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] A fine kettle of Turkey Vultures – over Boise’s North End
This morning (9/27/17) about 10:15 I spotted a few soaring birds, leading up to a gathering of about 12, soaring over Boise’s North End. They did the circling-at-different-levels thing, then before I could get to my good camera, they had headed south, stringing out in something more like single file. The iPhone out-the-upstairs-window was the shot that will have to do, and thinking back they may have been kettling directly over Tom McCabe’s house!
See link below – hummingbirds rock!
But so do magpies – we had one go off in the dark recently, 0600 hrs. Way better than any alarm clock!
Larry
From: obol-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:obol-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of 5hats@peak.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:58 PM
To: obol
Subject: [obol] Fwd: Bamboozled hummingbird
Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything quite like this before..
Darrel
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From: “Tina”>
To: “Darrel “>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:48:09 PM
Subject: Bamboozled hummingbird
This is great.
Blessings,
Tina
This morning (9/27/17) about 10:15 I spotted a few soaring birds, leading up to a gathering of about 12, soaring over Boise’s North End. They did the circling-at-different-levels thing, then before I could get to my good camera, they had headed south, stringing out in something more like single file. The iPhone out-the-upstairs-window was the shot that will have to do, and thinking back they may have been kettling directly over Tom McCabe’s house!
We returned to the north end of Mackay Reservoir early this evening and found the juvenile Sabine’s Gull again in the same place. It was extremely tolerant or our presence, coming within 10 feet of us multiple times. (With better reflexes and a faster camera, I could have gotten incredible photos when it flew right towards me, veering at the last moment!) After about an hour, a second juvenile Sabine’s Gull showed up in the same area.
If interested in seeing these, turn west at the northernmost marked access point for Mackay Reservoir off Hwy 93 and go down to the water’s edge. They are feeding in muddy patches right on the shoreline as well as out in the water less than 20 feet off shore.
Wendy McCradyMackay, ID
Sitting here on a perfectly windless, sun-shiny, autumn day in SW Idaho,
it’s impossible for me to imagine what they’re going through in the
Caribbean!
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From: National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Chat Line)
[mailto:BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Gail Mackiernan
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:41 AM
To: BIRDCHAT@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Dominica
Very sad, we birded with him in Dominica a number of years ago. It is
horrifying to think of the damage to the people and the environment of the
“Nature Island”
Gail Mackiernan
Silver Spring MD
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Patrick C. Hodgson <
>
> I have heard (via text) from my friend the popular Dominica bird guide
> Bertrand Jno-Baptiste. He is OK but has lost everything in terms of
> home and possessions. No report yet on the condition of the forest,
> he has not been able to go there yet.
>
> Pat Hodgson
> Toronto, Canada
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Hi folks,
Amy and I took a drive towards Prairie via Hwy 20 on Saturday. We stopped for about 30 minutes at a point on the west side of the road about 2 miles in from the beginning from where it leaves Hwy 20 at Mile 111. There we saw a flyover of at least 50 Mountain Bluebirds, presumably a migrating flock. Most of the time could see about 7-8 at once, but on one occasion at least this many flew over our heads, They were flying around and settling on rocks and on small shrubs, occasionally flying out to catch airborne insects. Looked to see if any Westerns mixed in, but all appeared to be Mountain as far as I could see. eBird flagged it as a high count, but I wonder at this time of year?
John Shortis.
A couple weeks ago, in the early morning dusk, I had a bird fly into my
kitchen window. I went out on the deck and it was lying stunned on a
chair cushion. As I approached it flew into a plant we have on the deck
and I decided to leave it alone. An hour or so later I went out on the
deck and it flushed and quickly flew around the side of the house. I had
a 2-3 second look, at best. At the time I thought “That seems like one
of those small dark wrens – basically it looked like a flying mouse”.
Today I was out in the yard watering plants and heard an interesting
“chip chip” coming from a bush. I could see under the bush what was
clearly a wren of some sorts. So I ran back into the house and grabbed
my binocular. When I got back out in the yard there was a Pacific Wren
just sitting on the lawn for me to get a good view of it. Very obliging.
This is the second time I have had this specie in my yard.
Scott Tuthill