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Re: American Golden Plover continuing at Blacks Creek

Has anyone evaluated the relationship of tail/tertials/primaries
on this bird? I can’t tell from the photos but it would be good to
eliminate the possibility of a much rarer Pacific Golden Plover.
If you’re photographing it try to get some that depict the primary
extension and projection. Either way it’s a very cool bird.

Cliff

On 5/1/25 11:06AM, henderson.danette
via groups.io wrote:


On north east shore.

Danette Henderson
Boise
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Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
cliffandlisa@...

Common Loon/RB Merganser

Yesterday there were 2 Common Loons at Silver Lake (Lake Harbor), but today I could only find one, and he spent a lot of time under water. And when I got back to Esther Simplot Park, there were 3 Red-breasted Mergansers (males) swimming around on the back pond.
This is the pond that is furthest north and west and only has a dirt path around it. You can access it easily from the Greenbelt path or directly from Whitewater Boulevard.
Gotta love migration!
Tom McCabe, Boise