I birded in the northern Idaho panhandle this weekend and came up with the
following highlights:
Cackling Goose: 8 were at Sandpoint City Beach on 10/28.
Eurasian Wigeon: One at Hawkins Point, Lake Pend Oreille on 10//28.
Bonaparte’s Gull: 2 at Boundary Creek WMA on 10/29 were my first for
Boundary County.
American Pipit: 6 were still at the Clark Fork Delta Driftwood Yard on
10/28.
GRAY CATBIRD: One was very late (by nearly 2 months) at the confluence of
Boundary Creek and the Kootenai River, on the international boundary at
Boundary Creek WMA Sunday 10/29:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40189846
SNOW BUNTING: 2 flew over and circled Sandpoint City Beach early on the
morning of 10/28. Another likely snow bunting flew over Hawkins Point a
few hours later.
American Tree Sparrow: My first for Bonner County was at the Clark Fork
Delta Driftwood Yard on 10/28.
HARRIS’S SPARROW: One was on the south side of the Kootenai River along
Riverside Drive about 1.5 miles east of Kootenai NWR on 10/28:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40176273
Common Redpoll: My first since early 2016, a flock of 15-20 flew over
Lakeview Park on the morning of 10/28. 2 were in residential Bonners Ferry
on Sunday 10/29.
Good Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Moscow, ID