Toppermost birds today include these beautiful creatures:
1 Virginia’s Warbler City of Rocks–General US-ID 19 May 2017
2 Ash-throated Flycatcher Black Pine Rd. at Stone Hills US-ID 19 May 2017 — hit eBird filter but shouldn’t have, since this area is predictable for them
3 Pinyon Jay Black Pine Rd. at Stone Hills US-ID 19 May 2017
4 Northern Mockingbird Black Pine Rd. at Stone Hills US-ID 19 May 2017 — also hit eBird filter, but shouldn’t for this area?
5 Bobolink (male) Black Pine Rd. at Stone Hills US-ID 19 May 2017 — also hit eBird filter, and I guess rightly so, since it was out of breeding habitat (migrating)
6 Black Tern at Stone Res
I also had a kingbird that I assumed was a Western Kingbird until I saw the whitish terminal tail band, suggesting Cassin’s Kingbird, in the same habitat I found them in W Colorado: old juniper burn areas. If it had called or sang, or if I had been able to see a white chin, I would have claimed it as a CAKI on my eBird list, waaaaaaaaa. was at junction of Black Pine Rd and Cow Creek Rd
Birders, check this out……. the Curlew CG host at Stone Res in Oneida County offered free camping there if I (any of us?) would take him birding! This is a first, eh? =)
good boid’n!
Larry
Boise