Just found a MacGillivray’s Warbler on the place. When I see this Warbler, means Fall migration is on. Down to a single juvenile Black-chinned Hummingbird at the nectar feeder, too.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

This past week I spotted an Osprey flying into a tree. It was 10 pm and pitch black out. When I put my flashlight on it it had a fish in its talons and was eating it. First I had ever seen or heard of an Orprey feeding at night. Is this a common occurance does anyone know?
Linda Lamb Priest River, ID

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Did anyone look for the Hermit Warbler and Northern Waterthrush today? Can you. Please let me know if you did find or did not find the birds? Thanks

Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho

What’s the chance of this bird heading south through Idaho at some point???
=)

Borrowing this thought from a birding friend in Oregon.

Larry

—–Original Message—–
From: National Birding Hotline Cooperative (West)
[mailto:BIRDWEST@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Terry Korolyk
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 10:17 PM
To: BIRDWEST@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU
Subject: [BIRDWEST] August 17 Calgary Bird Alert

RBA

*Alberta(Canada)

*Calgary, Alberta

*August 17, 2017

*ABCA1708.17

Birds mentioned: GREAT EGRET, SNOW GOOSE, CRESTED CARACARA, Hudsonian
Godwit, Western Sandpiper, Dunlin, Stilt Sandpiper, RED PHALAROPE, Herring
Gull, Northern Saw Whet Owl, Rufous Hummingbird, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER,
Hermit Thrush, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, Philadelphia Vireo, Cape May Warbler,
Black-and-White Warbler, Canada Warbler, BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK,

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Hotline: City of Calgary and Nature Calgary Bird Alert

Number: 403-300-1067

To report: 403-300-1067

Coverage: Southern Alberta

Compiler: Terry Korolyk

Transcriber: Terry Korolyk

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Welcome to the City of Calgary and Nature Calgary Bird Alert. This Bird
Alert was recorded on Thursday, August
17…………………………………….Alberta’s 2nd. CRESTED CARACARA
may be a one-day wonder. The bird was discovered at the Highway 69 and Range
Road 80A junction near Fort McMurray on July 29, but, there have been no
further reports……….The Calgary area’s 2nd. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER of
the year has been reported; Maureen Hills-Urbat reported the bird at her
home northwest of Cochrane on Saturday, August 5. Two other observers made
the trip to her home to see the bird………….There has been another
GREAT EGRET report in southern Alberta; Vince Piotrowski and Sandra Mills
found a bird near Red Deer on Saturday, August 12; that makes up to 7 of the
birds that have been reported in southern Alberta this
year……………………….Gord Smith found a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD near
Medecine Hat on Monday, August 14; that is the only report of that species
in the province thus far this year………………………….Caroline
Lambert found a juvenile RED PHALAROPE in the Irricana Sloughs on Friday,
August 11. She found the bird in one of her photographs; it was on the
slough on Range Road 264 just south of Township Road 264. Others journeyed
to the site to see the bird, but, it was not refound…………………Ken
Orich, David Scott, and, Luis Villaril reported 2 SNOW GEESE at Tyrrell Lake
south of Lethbridge on Sunday, August 13; these birds are out-of-season
there, but, this is a repeat performance from last
year……………………….Two Hudsonian Godwits were seen at a slough
on Range Road 264 south of Township Road 264 on Monday, August 14, while
Terry Korolyk observed a juvenile Western Sandpiper on Wednesday, August 9
on Range Road 284 just south of Township Road 231A southeast of Shepard. On
Sunday, August 13, Terry saw another Western Sandpiper; this time on 304
Street south of Highway 552 southeast of Carseland. On Tuesday, August 15,
Terry and Tony Timmons observed 420 Stilt Sandpipers on 304 Street south of
Highway 552. Dominic Mitchell found a breeding-plumaged Dunlin at Weed
Lake at Langdon on Sunday, July 30. Caroline Lambert found a winter-plumaged
Dunlin on Range Road 264 south of Twp. Rd. 264 southeast of Irricana on
Friday, August 11, while, Rick Robb photographed an adult Herring Gull at
Rotary Park in southeast Calgary on Monday, August 7. This species is
reaching annual status in the Calgary area in the Summer
months………….A Rufous Hummingbird wandered to Red Deer on Sunday,
August 13 where it was seen by Barb Clement…….Unusual in the Summer
months, a Northern Saw Whet Owl was reported by David Grinevitch on Rolling
Acres Drive in northwest Calgary on Saturday, August 12……………John
Bargman and Ena Spalding reported a Philadelphia Vireo in Springbank in west
Calgary on Monday, August 14, while Terry Korolyk and Tony Timmons watched a
male Canada Warbler at Wyndham-Carseland PP on Tuesday, August
15……………Barb Castell has had up to 4 BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAKS at her
home southeast of Priddis while Bruno Canadien thinks he may have observed
one at Beaverwood Flats in Black Diamond. Kent Ladell reported one in
Millarville southwest of Calgary on Tuesday, August 15. Andrew Slater found
a Black-and-White Warbler at Mallard Point in east Fish Creek PP on
Wednesday, August 16. Agnes Toth photographed a 1st. Fall male Cape May
Warbler at her home on Friday, August 4, while Sean Wade reported one at
Carburn Park in Calgary on Sunday, August 13. Deanna Desramaux reported 3
Hermit Thrush at the Saskatoon Farm south of Calgary on Thursday, August
10; these would be early
migrants……………………………………………The next
scheduled update of the Bird Alert is August 31………………….Thank
you from the City of Calgary and Nature Calgary Bird
Alert…………………..end transcript.

All,

I would say almost certainly that they nested thereabouts, based on GRHE annual cycle data per the BNA species account (Davis Jr., William E. and James A. Kushlan.(1994).Green Heron (Butorides virescens), The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology), which summarizes migration of this species as not beginning until late August, more often early September.

Way cool!!

Larry

From: ible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Austin Young austinyoung234@gmail.com [ible]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 7:42 AM
To: ible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBLE] Green Herons-Power Co. (Important update)

Hello,

I am currently observing FIVE Green Herons at the Willow Bay Pier near American Falls. It appears One adult and 4 first-year birds. I can’t help but wonder if they possibly successfully nested here!

https://idahobirds.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/599727bc2b8ba.jpeg

Austin Young

Pocatello

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Austin Young
Twin Falls, ID
austinyoung224@gmail.com

I really enjoy living in the Rocky Mt West, where the change in seasons is not measured by the calendar but by a subtle “feel”. This past week, nights are getting cooler, the mornings are “crisper” and daylight hours are shorter. Great Horned Owls are more vocal in the evenings & coyotes are “yipping” more. Mule deer & whitetail bucks are reaching the peak of their antlers being in velvet.

The past few days, Yellow Warblers have vacated and House Wrens are vocal & gathering in numbers. I heard a Red-breasted Nuthatch this AM & Black-capped Chickadees are hitting the seed feeder again. Black-headed Grosbeak numbers are decreasing with most feeder visits coming from juveniles now. And, it appears, that only a single juvenile Black-chinned Hummingbird is coming in for nectar. What really tipped me off though, besides the “feel” that fall is coming, was finding a group of 15 or so juvenile, with one adult, Chipping Sparrows in the sagebrush area of our place this morning. Adults in the spring & juveniles in the fall are one my hallmarks of a seasonal change. Fall is on its way!

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot

I believe that this is a second adult, it was on the opposite side of the
pier than the other birds.

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 07:41 Austin Young wrote:

> Hello,
> I am currently observing FIVE Green Herons at the Willow Bay Pier near
> American Falls. It appears One adult and 4 first-year birds. I can’t help
> but wonder if they possibly successfully nested here!
>
>
>
> Austin Young
> Pocatello
> —
> Austin Young
> Twin Falls, ID
> austinyoung224@gmail.com
>
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Austin Young
Twin Falls, ID
austinyoung224@gmail.com

Hello,
I am currently observing FIVE Green Herons at the Willow Bay Pier near
American Falls. It appears One adult and 4 first-year birds. I can’t help
but wonder if they possibly successfully nested here!

Austin Young
Pocatello
—
Austin Young
Twin Falls, ID
austinyoung224@gmail.com

Camas NWR was very active this morning. The bulk of the migrants were Wilson’s Warbler and Empids (particularly Willow Flycatcher). There were a couple of Townsend’s Warblers, an American Redstart, an occasionally vocalizing Least Flycatcher, a Northern Waterthrush, and a very quick look at an unmistakable fall-plumaged Magnolia Warbler (not sure if it was a female or a young bird). I saw it very briefly and could never relocate it. Most of the activity (including the Magnolia Warbler) was in the straightaway, which is the big double row of Cottonwoods along a ditch just prior to turning into the refuge.

Darren Clark
Rexburg, ID

Sent from my iPhone

Hi all,
Today I had the pleasure of observing a Hermit Warbler and Northern
Waterthrush at Lake Walcott State Park. For those who want to know, the
Hermit Warbler was seen in the vicinity of 42.6717, -113.4808 and the
Northern Waterthrush was seen in the vicinity of 42.6715, -113.4798.
Northern Waterthrushes are expected fall migrants but I don’t believe they
are encountered often.

I also followed up on Pat Weber’s Green Heron at American Falls reservoir
and I found not one, but two adult Green Herons right there at the Willow
Bay Pier. Thanks Pat!

Photos can be found in the eBird checklists provided here:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38690970

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38690719

Austin Young
Pocatello

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Austin Young
Twin Falls, ID
austinyoung224@gmail.com