Here east of Blackfoot with a wooded/bush lined irrigation canal in my yard, I’ve had a mixed group of orioles, black-headed grosbeaks and Lazuli Buntings mobbing my feeders. I’ve had at least 8 male Lazulis at once using my window feeders. I can lay quietly on my couch and observe every detail. It’s fabulous! They will not share a feeder so the extras wait their turns in the adjacent branches of the nearby yew trees. The instant one Lazuli leaves a feeder a replacement moves in. It’s like planes at an airport waiting in a landing pattern. I’m waiting to see if the Lazulis move through or if they nest here. Also have barn swallows nesting once again in the same nest they attached to the cobble stone facing on my front porch. Unfortunately they prefer the nest directly above my front door. I keep wondering if it’s the same adults that returned or if they are 1 or 2 year-olds that fledged from that nest. Had a great horned owl and a Swainsons emerge from nests in our grove of spruce trees when I accidently surprised them yesterday. Never a dull moment around here.
For just a moment, I had a male Western Tanager and a male Bullock’s Oriole in the same shrub outside my dining room window. Not long enough for a photo.
Kit
Kit Struthers Idaho Falls, ID kit619@centurylink.net
Following a spring storm yesterday, lots of great species were out and about today in eastern Idaho. I had a male Tennessee Warbler and a Broad-winged Hawk on the east end of Mud Lake WMA in the narrow strip of riparian vegetation along the lake shore
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Boise river road past Texas rd.about 150 yards r.side flooded field 35 ibis viewing platform near ft.boise only thing of interest 27 ibis.Sat at river saw 5 terns take your pick on which one most common??
Been good for variety this past week at home. YR Warbler, Pine Siskin, Evening Grosbeak, WC Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Cassin’s Finch, Lazuli Bunting, Swanson’s Hawk, BH Grosbeak, Bullock’s Oriole & both BC & Rufous Hummingbirds. Am Robins are nesting & have hatchlings. Along the river: Black-necked Stilt, Wood Duck, Osprey & the Canada Geese: which have started nesting.
Still waiting for: Yellow Warbler, House Wren & Western Tanager.
