Birders,
With birds departing and/or going silent, I thought I should share a list of what Missy and I have encountered along the Greenbelt so far this month (below).
This also illustrates the new improved AOS phylogenetic order of things avian, which will take me a while to internalize.
Tom McCabe found us The Coot, which has otherwise been AWOL hereabouts, if you can imagine this!?
We are very happy to see the smokey days behind us (hope-hope), with daily high temperatures dropping a wee bit! Yeehah =)
Larry, Boise.

Species Name High Count
Canada Goose 175
Mute Swan 4
Wood Duck 45
Northern Shoveler 5
Mallard 100
Common Merganser 14
California Quail 50
Ring-necked Pheasant 1
Wild Turkey 10
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Western Grebe 1
Rock Pigeon 30
Eurasian Collared-Dove 15
White-winged Dove 1
Mourning Dove 35
Common Nighthawk 2
Common Poorwill 3
Black-chinned Hummingbird 20
Rufous Hummingbird 3
Calliope Hummingbird 1
hummingbird sp. 1
American Coot 1
Killdeer 10
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Ring-billed Gull 4
California Gull 10
gull sp. 15
Double-crested Cormorant 40
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 15
Cooper’s Hawk 5
Sharp-shinned Hawl 3
Bald Eagle 1
Swainson’s Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 8
Western Screech-Owl 3
Great Horned Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 14
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 10
American Kestrel 3
Prairie Falcon 2
Western Wood-Pewee 3
Willow Flycatcher 10
Empidonax sp. 1
Say’s Phoebe 1
Western Kingbird 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
flycatcher sp. (Tyrannidae sp.) 1
Warbling Vireo 3
Black-billed Magpie 45
American Crow 4
Common Raven 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Tree Swallow 6
Violet-green Swallow 40
Bank Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 100
Cliff Swallow 2
swallow sp. 80
Black-capped Chickadee 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
Rock Wren 1
Canyon Wren 1
House Wren 6
Bewick’s Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling 120
Cedar Waxwing 15
House Finch 60
Lesser Goldfinch 3
American Goldfinch 15
Chipping Sparrow 4
Brewer’s Sparrow 2
Lark Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 12
Spotted Towhee 4
sparrow sp. 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 3
Bullock’s Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird 240
Brewer’s Blackbird 20
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
MacGillivray’s Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
American Redstart 1
Yellow Warbler 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Wilson’s Warbler 1
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 2
Western Tanager 2
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
Lazuli Bunting 3
House Sparrow 10

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