http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/ Idaho Birders Linked Electronically Sun, 11 May 2008 22:38:52 GMT carlislejay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14904 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14904 Today I enjoyed a great 1/2 day of birding with Ken & Betty Rodgers at Deer Flat NWR (Canyon County). We started the day walking along riparian woodland at Sun, 11 May 2008 22:37:48 GMT Cliff and Lisa Weisse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14903 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14903 Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I received a report of an adult Broad-winged Hawk from Custer County this morning and there's also a report from UT Sun, 11 May 2008 19:49:36 GMT J. Harry Krueger http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14902 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14902 While visiting the Jacks Creek area at the eastern end of C.J.Strike Reservoir, Owyhee County late yesterday (I was finishing up my weekly LICS route at about Sun, 11 May 2008 19:33:06 GMT Michael Wiegand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14901 on my hike off Scriver Creek in Garden Valley this morning I was surprised to see nearly 20 common ravens kettling into the sky above the creek, some upwards Sun, 11 May 2008 19:10:19 GMT Russ Manwaring http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14900 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14900 Speaking of Blackbird variability, I found this orange-winged blackbird on the yard feeder today. Sorry for the poor picture quality , but had to shoot through Sun, 11 May 2008 18:35:57 GMT LCARRIGAN_55 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14899 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14899 Just had three different female finches at one of my platform feeders all at the same time: House Finch, Purple Finch and Cassin's Finch. Each was perched at Sun, 11 May 2008 15:53:37 GMT LCARRIGAN_55 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14898 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14898 This mroning have had numerous Am. Goldfinches and House Finches coming into the feeders. But in the last half hour 2 male Lazuli Buntings and 1 female Purple Sun, 11 May 2008 07:31:58 GMT intechlw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14897 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14897 Today was another slow day at Camas as the passing storms did not produce the fallout I had hoped for. Although it was slow today it did have a few good Sun, 11 May 2008 02:33:49 GMT LCARRIGAN_55 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14896 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14896 Had Yellow Warblers arrive today and heard my first W. Screech Owl for the season just a bit ago. Great-horneds are on nests and Saw-whets have been calling Sun, 11 May 2008 01:25:18 GMT Robert Davis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14895 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14895 There is a pair of common loons on the Snake River in Idaho Falls just above the power plant dam, the one by the new bridge. There is also a burrowing owl on Sun, 11 May 2008 00:55:18 GMT Cliff and Lisa Weisse http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14894 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14894 We have no Pine Siskins in Island Park either. I can remember them showing up late other years but usually they're here by now, sometimes even in February. Sun, 11 May 2008 00:11:54 GMT Mike Munts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14893 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14893 I just had a couple of Evening Grosbeaks in my yard. That brings my finch list to 5 for the yard in the last 2 days. Conspicuously missing are Pine Siskins. I Sun, 11 May 2008 00:10:19 GMT no_idea http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14892 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14892 At Indian Creek Reservoir I caught sight of what at first looked to be a great blue heron. It was the right size and shape, but then I noticed the strange Sat, 10 May 2008 13:52:12 GMT spencerw100 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14891 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14891 Here's the latest additions from our spring migration spectacle. Every day seems to bring something new. I just wish I didn't have to work because I know I'm Sat, 10 May 2008 13:23:50 GMT STEPHANY ERWIN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14890 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/message/14890 Well I have another new bird for my yard for 2008...........a Hermits Thrush.......I watched him last night in and about the blackberry bramble foraging. l