Our first Rufous, a brilliant male, showed up last Thursday, right about the usual date. Migration is surely begun.
I have three hummer feeders up and am refilling about one four cup feeder a day. This is about half the rate of recent years. Lots of displaying going on near the feeders, so it’s likely brood two is on the way.
Have started getting regular visits to the nectar feeder past few days. My local Black-chinneds, both male & female, have been hitting hard in this heat. But, was surprised with sev visits yest evening by a juvenile Rufous. My first sightings for Rufous are usually the end of July, on their migration back south. I was esp surprised with this one being a juvenile. Of course, given the heat & warm summer, prob early nesting has occurred & migration south may have started.
On Jul 2, 2021, at 7:49 PM, Robert Kiernan <photobirder@…> wrote:
Weird looking teal
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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
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
On Jul 2, 2021, at 7:49 PM, Robert Kiernan <photobirder@…> wrote:
Weird looking teal
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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
Looks like fall migration is underway for peeps at least. Water is going down, but there were possibly as many as 100 peeps out at Dry Lakes this morning. Most were western sandpipers but there appeared to be a smattering of semipalmated sandpipers and I saw 3 semipalmated plovers.–
I agree with Mark’s id. I had two small flocks at Blue Lake Sewage Lagoons yesterday. There were both young as well as adult birds. All heavily mottled, some traces of rufous. Tried to make the shorter-billed birds into Baird’s… or something else…just in case. But this was a no-go idea quickly dropped. Water level was down and away so could not get any kind of a decent id-able photo.
FYI, these ponds are off Eisenman St. near the Boise Outlets. For access, do not use the marked/paved pvt. road on the west side of the residence area. Please use the unmarked graveled road that drops down from Eisenman across from the United Van Lines terminal and parallels the east side of the Adesa parking lot. These ponds are fenced and posted No Trespassing on the NE and NW corners and though the fence is broken down in a couple spots that is no excuse to cross over. There may have been some recent problems in this regard. The manager saw me, came out and spoke with me a few weeks back, I thanked him for allowing access to birders. He did not say yes or no. I left it go. Behave ourselves and it should be O.K.
Long bill with a droopy tip and chevron-shaped spots on the flanks say “Western Sandpiper.” Looks like fall migration is starting . . .
Mark Stackhouse westwings@… from Mexico: 01-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit) 001-801-518-5618 (cellular – U.S. and Mexico) from U.S. 011-52-323-285-1243 or 1-801-518-5618
