Sorry, I am new to the group and did not realize that! It stands for Wilson’s phalarope
Re: WIPH
What’s a WIPH?
I thought ancestral IBLE protocol was to never use bird abbreviations without saying what it is to ease things for old folks like me.
WIPH
I saw these 2 WIPH on a makeshift pond. Gayle Eaton, Donnelly
Whimbrel
Saw 3 Whimbrels in a mixed flock of LBCU in Valley County. It was so strange to see 5 LBCU (22.8″) together, so I started to study them closer. The WHIM’s were smaller (16.9″), had shorter straighter bills (though also down turned), eye stripe. I sent to a Master Birder who ID’d them.
Great Gray
Hey,
Haven’t posted in a very long time, but thought the Great Gray Owl I saw last night here in Teton County was noteworthy. Kinda cool it coincided with the unusual solar storm that pushed the Northern Lights down to this latitude. Wonder what the owl thought of those coronal mass ejections? Owl launched couple of times at voles but missed. Time was around 20:00.
Scott MacButch – Tetonia
Haven’t posted in a very long time, but thought the Great Gray Owl I saw last night here in Teton County was noteworthy. Kinda cool it coincided with the unusual solar storm that pushed the Northern Lights down to this latitude. Wonder what the owl thought of those coronal mass ejections? Owl launched couple of times at voles but missed. Time was around 20:00.
Scott MacButch – Tetonia
Re: Hummers
A Bullock pair showed this afternoon.
Bill
Re: Hummers
That’s fun news, Bill! After your posting a couple of weeks ago, I put my feeder right out. No customers, yet, but I did hear a yellow warbler this evening! Bullocks are back, too. Huzzah! Spring is happening at last. Looking forward to the hummer invasion!
Cheers,
Janet Shipman
Pocatello near ISU
Hummers
Hummers numbers are picking up finally, getting multiple visits a day and females. Cassins Finch arrived and they are here all Summer. House wrens also showed, but early ones showed up with abbreviated song, only back end. Maybe more will show up with full melody and teach the others. I wonder if they could be last year’s brood in first breeding cycle. Great Horns are singing through night.
Bill Moore
Hoot Owl
Inkom
Hummingbird
Just filled my hummingbird feeder, as had a Black-chinned come through earlier. And, the hummingbird was followed by a mature male Bullock’s Oriole. Last year, a male Bullock’s was a regular visitor to the hummingbird feeder in early Spring.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Dusky Flycatcher
This is the longest, we’ve ever had Cassin’s Finches spend early Spring on our place. Still coming into feeder, for close to 3 wks now. House Wrens are arriving in good numbers the past few days & rapidly staking out their territories. And, Black-headed Grosbeaks started showing up on Monday. I heard a Yellow Warbler, but could never quite locate it for a sighting.
Best bird this AM was a Dusky Flycatcher, fly-catching from top wire of fence between our place & neighbor’s. 2 Wild Turkey hens show under the feeder every morning, scratching for scattered seeds. On my walk this morning, suspect at least one is nesting on the place, as I, unintentionally, scared her up twice in the same area.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot