Red-throated Loon still present today at Lake Lowell/Deer Flat NWR – seen ~due N (a bit east of north) from parking lot 7. Keeping company with Western & Clark’s Grebe – still quite distant and photos are hard but glassy water 👍
On Sunday, November 7, 2021, 8:38 PM, bike4birds <tmccabe9@…> wrote:
He/she continues to hang out. Two days ago, it let me get to within 3 feet of it. It seems to like fishermen. I watched it follow a hooked fish all the way to the dock at the west end. The fisherman took a few swats at it with a second fishing pole, then threw the caught fish to the Loon, who immediately wolfed it down.
The bird’s plumage has gone dull for the winter. We go every day to check its status.
Tom McCabe
From:IBLE@groups.io<IBLE@groups.io>On Behalf OfDiann Stone Sent:Sunday, November 7, 2021 6:30 PM To:IBLE@groups.io Subject:Re: [IBLE] Red-throated Loon at Deer Flat NWR lower dam
What’s the status of the Common Loon at Riverside park in Boise?
A juvenile – currently floating NE seen from ~middle of dam. Lighting less than ideal.
Also a late Common Tern, a Least Sandpiper, etc. so far.
Jay
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
— Kathy Lopez Nampa
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Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
From the IdahoHwy. 78 bridge over the Snake River in Elmore County this afternoon, I saw both Western and Clark’s Grebes as well as a Great Blue Heron, one Tree Swallow, and many Ring-billed Gulls.In town yesterday (Friday), I heard a Say’s Phoebe.
Alan Gregory in Mountain Home
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Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID
Member, Idaho Native Plant Society
Air Force Public Affairs Alumni Association, life member
Red-throated Loon still present today at Lake Lowell/Deer Flat NWR – seen ~due N (a bit east of north) from parking lot 7. Keeping company with Western & Clark’s Grebe – still quite distant and photos are hard but glassy water 👍
On Sunday, November 7, 2021, 8:38 PM, bike4birds <tmccabe9@…> wrote:
He/she continues to hang out. Two days ago, it let me get to within 3 feet of it. It seems to like fishermen. I watched it follow a hooked fish all the way to the dock at the west end. The fisherman took a few swats at it with a second fishing pole, then threw the caught fish to the Loon, who immediately wolfed it down.
The bird’s plumage has gone dull for the winter. We go every day to check its status.
Tom McCabe
From:IBLE@groups.io<IBLE@groups.io>On Behalf OfDiann Stone Sent:Sunday, November 7, 2021 6:30 PM To:IBLE@groups.io Subject:Re: [IBLE] Red-throated Loon at Deer Flat NWR lower dam
What’s the status of the Common Loon at Riverside park in Boise?
A juvenile – currently floating NE seen from ~middle of dam. Lighting less than ideal.
Also a late Common Tern, a Least Sandpiper, etc. so far.
Jay
Ken Miracle chukar28@… 208-570-2780 “Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
Yesterday, for the first time since late May, I couldn’t find the Common Loon that’s been hanging out in a pond just off Glenwood. Today, I again couldn’t find it, so I asked a fisherman if he had seen the bird. He said that Idaho F&G had
captured the bird because they thought the pond was too short for the bird to take off from. He said he had helped them try to capture it once before, but they were unsuccessful at that time. He also said that they were concerned that the bird was consuming
so many fish that it was getting too fat to take off. (?)
I’m sad that I will no longer get to see such a rare visitor. I also wonder if F&G was catering to the fisherman by eliminating their main competition. 🙁
Fortunately, there are lots of winter visitors still arriving.
Red-throated Loon still present today at Lake Lowell/Deer Flat NWR – seen ~due N (a bit east of north) from parking lot 7. Keeping company with Western & Clark’s Grebe – still quite distant and photos are hard but glassy water 👍
It’s he call of the Eastern Meadowlark for me. It was one of the first bird calls I learned while living outside of Grand Haven, Michigan many decades ago.
My favorite from Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania is the Carolina Wren. When my late wife and I traveled to Nova Scotia in the late 90s, we were fortunate to hear one of these wrens singing. My most recent wren sighting was a Rock Wren at the scenic overlook turnout along U.S. 20 about 10 miles south of the Camas County line in Elmore County.
Thank you both for your comments. I have been documenting your comments in my checklist for future reference. Thank you for this great learning opportunity not only for me but for many others I’m sure!
