Teton County, Idaho March 11, 2018
Packsaddle Estates northwest end of valley
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch approx 50 (down from over 200 last month)
Pine Grosbeak 12
Clark’s Nutcracker 2
Steller’s Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 2
Dark-eyed Junco (pink-sided) 3
Mountain Bluebird 1 male along road in farm field below subdivision FOY
Mountain Chickadee few
Black-capped Chickadee 6 singing
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Susan Patla
Just and FYI for interested folks of neat bird I heard about the other day
from a friend in Oregon. I know this went around in Feb. but its still
relevant. The observer is reported to know Red-shouldered Hawks quite well.
Thanks!
*From: *Lars Per Norgren
*Subject: **[obol] Red-shouldered Hawk ID/OR*
*Date: *March 11, 2018 at 9:56:37 AM PDT
*To: *OBOL Online
*Reply-To: *larspernorgren@gmail.com
Around Feb 16 I saw a hawk fly across the Snake River into Idaho that
I suspected was a Red-shoulder. Friday morning (3/9)I got looks at an
immature hawk in bad light on the Idaho side (Whitley Bottom) then
Saturday morning
I saw it
on Morton Island [43.990693, -116.947742], the Oregon side under excellent
light. It was perched with its back to me. I studied it at length, then as
I got out my new phone to attempt digiscoping it took flight and returned
to the Idaho side. Interested folks are welcome to contact me for more
details. Lars
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Austin Young
Pocatello
RL and I observed the duck at 115 and is still here. In narrowest part of
reservoir about in middle.
Hanging near L. Scaup actively feeding. Took us 2.5 hrs to locate.
Apparently has moved around the reservoir quite a bit today.
RL thanks for finding this LIFER for me today and Cheryl and Denise for
posting the original finding yesterday.
Danette Henderson
Boise
The Evening Grosbeaks I reported a few weeks ago are still present in varying numbers, this morning I saw 8 of them, but one day last week, there were 17, all but one were males. The birds have always been in the bushes along the racetrack side of the road, sometimes scattered in split groups, sometimes altogether. Often they feed on the ground right on the roadside. They have now been there for almost a month.
Good birding!
John Shortis.
Tufted Duck still at Mt.Home Reservoir. Found initially (10:00) at SE end of reservoir but the group moved off to the middle and then to the SW end where I found it again. With Lesser Scaup initially but joined Common Goldeneyes and Buffelhead at SW end
A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was present at the UI Dairy Ponds in Moscow this
morning. It was tucked up along the NW edge of the back (west) pond and
usually difficult to see. Poor photos on eBird:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43589641. March is the best season to
see this species passing through our region.
Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID
The duck has moved across the reservoir towards the northwest side
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Cheryl just found a tufted duck at mountain home reservoir.
Denise Hughes
Caldwell, Idaho
Hope y’all enjoyed his extraordinary presentation on OWLS as much as I did!!
(last night at the GEAS Banquet in Boise). He delivered a LOT of
information, with no words wasted! And I was very happy that he discussed
our need to retain public lands as public lands, out of the hands of private
interests, eh?!
Larry
I did some birding around Lake Coeur d’Alene today. 15+ VIOLET-GREEN
SWALLOWS and 2+ TREE SWALLOW were at North Idaho College Beach in Coeur
d’Alene. 4 more VIOLET-GREENS were over fields adjacent to the Saint
Maries Airport later in the day. Among the many waterfowl were at least
2000 TUNDRA SWANS spread out from Wolf Lodge Bay to Lake Chatcolet, a flock
of about 10 GREATER SCAUP at Wolf Lodge Bay, and a flock of over 100 HOODED
MERGANSERS in Harrison Slough.
Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID