I am the organizer and compiler of the Garden Valley CBC and could use more birders to help out. The count is Wednesday, December 20. Most of the area can be done by driving but there is at least one Zone that could use some additional help that involves hiking, possibly in snow. We will initially meet at Wild Bill’s in Crouch and end the day by 3 pm at the Garden Valley Library. If you are interested and would like more information, please email me at elouisa603@….
2 :30 thousands snow geese 2 groups 5 comm.golden eye further along dam 2 more 1ruddy duck 5 dead snow geese Murphys neck & Helen’s pond iced over can someone tell me how LWENTZ photos ended up on my phone & how I can delete them
Many thanks to Carter who called Cheryl and told her about a white-winged scoter at Lake Lowell’s lower dam. Cheryl called me and I was able to get a quick glimpse before it flew further away from the dam. While trying to relocate the scoter for the James, Jim pointed out a white duck as it was flying by. Turned out to be a long-tailed duck.
I’d point out that molt progression of the cap matches
Yellow-bellied. Red-napeds molt in the red feathers from front to
back of the cap while Yellow-bellieds molt those feathers more
randomly. Also the base color of the cap, paler tannish brown with
darker streaking rather than more solidly dark brown fits
Yellow-bellied.
Cool bird.
Cliff
On 11/18/23 01:08PM, Jay Carlisle via
groups.io wrote:
A
heads up re: the KA Park (Boise) sapsucker seen earlier this
week (during the tanager frenzy 😁) … Jared Peck and Kathryn
Keith are the ones who’ve posted pics so far (that I know of):
Though
it was reported as a Red-naped (the most likely species here so
a sensible assumption), since it’s so slow to get into formative
(adult-like) plumage, it looks more like a
Yellow-bellied (immatures known to molt more slowly in their
first fall – retaining juvenile plumage for much longer than
Red-naped). The paler tones in the crown (best seen in
Kathryn’s list) is also a good fit for Yellow-bellied, and the
hint of the black border on the throat might point that way as
well.
Jared
mentioned seeing it fly S – in the direction of Morris Hill
cemetery (a known winter sapsucker hotspot) so it’s worth
keeping an eye out in that area.
