I have no idea what your bird abbreviations are! (except for Great Horned Owl). I know how to write them, but I have a hard time reading them!
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Re: New Chickadee Behavior for Me
Good list! Haven’t had Northern Pygmy, but get nightly calls of both Great-horneds & Saw-whets in our woods. No Golden-crowned Kinglets this Fall, so far. I keep looking, sev yrs back had a large flock of them, pass thru.
Brian Carrigan
Re: New Chickadee Behavior for Me
Valley Co. forest walk today, high numbers of RCKI and GCKI’s foraging in “dense” flocks. Also had a NOPO, GHOW’s, and a NSWO calling about 0600. Fun times in the forest!
Happy Birding, Rich Rusnak
New Chickadee Behavior for Me
Had to look twice to convince myself what I was observing. I watched a Black-capped Chickadee, fly-catching. Six times in a row from a backyard cottonwood tree branch. Usually, they go right for the platform sunflower seeds.
Took me a bit to see what it was actually fly-catching. Turned out to be Woolly Aphids. The aphids usually appear Sept/Oct &, this AM, seeing a bunch of the fuzzy, light blue aphids flying about. Just hadn’t witnessed a chickadee fly-catching before, that I recall.
About the only migrants coming thru now are a handful of both YR Warblers & RC Kinglets. Also have DE Juncos & White-crowned Sparrows about. Best bird yest was a Prairie Falcon flyover.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
First Townsend’s Solitaire of Season
Just heard my first Townsend’s Solitaire of the season. They’ll winter along the Snake River in the Riparian area. Usually will stake out a Rocky Mtn Juniper that has good berries on it & defend from the Robins that come in, as well.
Just a handful of Yellow-rumped Warblers coming through. See maybe 2-3 a day working through the cottonwoods. A few White-crowned Sparrows & Juncos about. Otherwise, pretty quiet. Fall color is starting to peak, but a bit spotty this season.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Re: American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek
Cool! Merlin picked up an AMGP the last two times I was there, but I was never able to find it and thought it must be a mistake. Guess not!
American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek
There was American Golden Plover on the mudflat at Blacks Creek in Ada County this morning. It was near the Black-bellied Plover that has been there for several days. The AMGP flew in and stayed for about 15 minutes before both plovers flew off together. 
Re: Caldwell Ponds
Denise, are these the several ponds by the Rv resort and the gun club?
Dean
Dean Jones
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Caldwell Ponds
The ponds are finally reopened again after being closed for several years. The water is slowly filling the pond. Unfortunately many of the trees were taken out by the company that pulled gravel out of the pond area.
The ponds are on Hwy 20/26, Parma exit (exit 26) off I84. The bridge over the freeway (exit 26) has been damaged so the easiest way to get to Hwy 20/26 is go to exit 25. You can either backtrack to exit 26 (ramps are open) or go across the freeway and down the hill to Farmeay Road. Turn left and then turn right onto Hwy 20/26.
Denise Hughes
Re: Evening grosbeak in eagle
I had a flock of about 25 Evening Grosbeaks in my yard today! Came to our feeder and pond. So fun!
Cheryl Huizinga – South of Caldwell