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Carl Lundblad via groups.io <carl.lundblad...> |
Re: [IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
| 10/16/26 10:49 am |
Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa...> |
Re: [IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
| 10/16/26 9:12 am |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
Re: [IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
| 10/15/26 9:03 am |
Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa...> |
[IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
| 10/14/26 5:08 pm |
Richard and Ann Rusnak via groups.io <rarusnak62...> |
Re: [IBLE] Steller's Jay Replacement |
| 10/14/26 4:27 pm |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
[IBLE] Steller's Jay Replacement |
| 10/12/26 6:31 am |
John Schmidt via groups.io <jschmidt06...> |
Re: [IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
| 10/11/26 11:42 am |
Jeff Brough - Idaho Falls via groups.io <brogjl...> |
Re: [IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
| 10/11/26 7:36 am |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
[IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
| 10/5/26 11:48 am |
Peggy Wyman via groups.io <peggywyman...> |
Re: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
| 10/4/26 11:59 am |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
Re: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
| 10/4/26 11:21 am |
Richard and Ann Rusnak via groups.io <rarusnak62...> |
Re: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
| 10/4/26 9:47 am |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
[IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
| 10/2/26 8:29 am |
lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...> |
[IBLE] First Townsend's Solitaire of Season |
| 9/28/26 12:31 pm |
Katy Magee via groups.io <Kmagee.bail...> |
Re: [IBLE] American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek |
| 9/28/26 11:40 am |
Kent Kleman via groups.io <Kentkleman...> |
[IBLE] American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek |
| 9/27/26 8:52 am |
rattlesnake4873 via groups.io <Rattlesnake4873...> |
Re: [IBLE] Caldwell Ponds |
| 9/26/26 1:14 pm |
Denise Hughes via groups.io <deniseh449...> |
[IBLE] Caldwell Ponds |
| 9/19/26 11:23 am |
Cheryl Huizinga via groups.io <bchuizinga...> |
Re: [IBLE] Evening grosbeak in eagle |
| 9/19/26 8:05 am |
Karl Kosciuch via groups.io <kosciuch...> |
[IBLE] Evening grosbeak in eagle |
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Date: 10/16/26 11:00 am
From: Carl Lundblad via groups.io <carl.lundblad...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
It was definitelyTropical Storm Rachel that brought these birds to Utah.
The east side and southeast quadrant of a tropical storm are typically
favored for deposition of displaced and entrained pelagic birds. Rachel
moved from the Baja coast near Ensenada, northeast and along the
Nevada/Utah border, and Utah was therefore perfectly positioned along with
the Salton Sea (CA) and Lake Havasu (CA/AZ), both of which got multiple
storm petrel species. It's relatively unlikely that sea birds would have
been displaced to the west of the center of the circulation (i.e., into
Idaho or central/northern Nevada), although not out of the question, and
some of these birds could be dispersing as they try and make their way back
to the ocean. I did not expect pelagic birds to make it nearly so far
inland from this magnitude of tropical storm, but the track was ideal and
we kind of missed the metaphorical boat in the Nevada (though a few
observers searched Lakes Mead and Mojave on the Lower Colorado River), not
helped by the appearance of a fantastic non-storm related (presumably)
rarity/first state record in Henderson, NV (a Yellow Grosbeak) on the eve
of the storm.
Happy Birding,
Carl Lundblad
Reno, NV
On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa=
<octobersetters.com...> wrote:
> Here's a checklist with some good photos:
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> https://ebird.org/checklist/S401885086
> On 10/16/26 10:12AM, lcarrigan_55 via groups.io wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing, Cliff. The Pacific storms Rachel & Simon must have
> really blown some birds off-course! If anyone has any photos, please share
> on this forum. Would be fascinating.
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> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
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> Cliff and Lisa Weisse
> Island Park, <Idahocliffandlisa...>
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Date: 10/16/26 10:49 am
From: Cliff Weisse via groups.io <cliffandlisa...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels in Utah |
Here's a checklist with some good photos:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S401885086
On 10/16/26 10:12AM, lcarrigan_55 via groups.io wrote:
> Thanks for sharing, Cliff. The Pacific storms Rachel & Simon must have
> really blown some birds off-course! If anyone has any photos, please
> share on this forum. Would be fascinating.
> Brian Carrigan
> Blackfoot
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Cliff and Lisa Weisse
Island Park, Idaho
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Date: 10/14/26 5:08 pm
From: Richard and Ann Rusnak via groups.io <rarusnak62...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Steller's Jay Replacement |
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Date: 10/14/26 4:27 pm
From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...>
Subject: [IBLE] Steller's Jay Replacement |
So, today a Blue Jay has appeared & the Steller's Jay seems to be gone. The Blue Jay has been busy at the platform feeder making repeated trips, gathering as many as 10 seeds at a time, & caching them all around the yard. Stashing them at bases of trees, bushes, along crooks of tree limbs, etc. Have seen sev over the years. A few yrs back, one did quite similar and stayed for sev wks during the winter.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
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Date: 10/12/26 6:31 am
From: John Schmidt via groups.io <jschmidt06...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
Same here in the Moonlight Mine area east of Pocatello where we've
gotten 2" of snow this a.m.. The usual winter gang, chickadees, mountain
and black capped, house finches, pine siskins, red breasted nuthatches,
hairy and downy woodpeckers are all around. Stellars Jays showed up a
few weeks ago and have stayed. Evening grosbeaks arrived a couple of
days ago too. Even had a red squirrel capture a finch at one feeder,
second time we've seen that happen. A lack of pine cones this year might
account for that.
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Date: 10/11/26 11:42 am
From: Jeff Brough - Idaho Falls via groups.io <brogjl...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
Here, about 6 miles north of Idaho Falls, I've been having a mini irruption of Juncos. Normally this time of year I would be host to a few, maybe 5 or 6, but the last 2 weeks or more there must be over 100 foraging in my yard and the field next door.
Quite unusual for me.
Jeff Brough
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Date: 10/11/26 7:36 am
From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...>
Subject: [IBLE] Change in Weather Visitors |
Last few days, have had regular visits by: a Mtn Chickadee, sev Pine Siskins, an Evening Grosbeak &, going on a week now, a Steller's Jay. All hitting the sunflower seeds on the platform feeder. Think they must have known, a change in the weather was coming.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
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Date: 10/4/26 11:59 am
From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
Good list! Haven't had Northern Pygmy, but get nightly calls of both Great-horneds & Saw-whets in our woods. No Golden-crowned Kinglets this Fall, so far. I keep looking, sev yrs back had a large flock of them, pass thru.
Brian Carrigan
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Date: 10/4/26 11:21 am
From: Richard and Ann Rusnak via groups.io <rarusnak62...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
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Date: 10/4/26 9:47 am
From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...>
Subject: [IBLE] New Chickadee Behavior for Me |
Had to look twice to convince myself what I was observing. I watched a Black-capped Chickadee, fly-catching. Six times in a row from a backyard cottonwood tree branch. Usually, they go right for the platform sunflower seeds.
Took me a bit to see what it was actually fly-catching. Turned out to be Woolly Aphids. The aphids usually appear Sept/Oct &, this AM, seeing a bunch of the fuzzy, light blue aphids flying about. Just hadn't witnessed a chickadee fly-catching before, that I recall.
About the only migrants coming thru now are a handful of both YR Warblers & RC Kinglets. Also have DE Juncos & White-crowned Sparrows about. Best bird yest was a Prairie Falcon flyover.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
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Date: 10/2/26 8:29 am
From: lcarrigan_55 via groups.io <carriganbw...>
Subject: [IBLE] First Townsend's Solitaire of Season |
Just heard my first Townsend's Solitaire of the season. They'll winter along the Snake River in the Riparian area. Usually will stake out a Rocky Mtn Juniper that has good berries on it & defend from the Robins that come in, as well.
Just a handful of Yellow-rumped Warblers coming through. See maybe 2-3 a day working through the cottonwoods. A few White-crowned Sparrows & Juncos about. Otherwise, pretty quiet. Fall color is starting to peak, but a bit spotty this season.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
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Date: 9/28/26 12:31 pm
From: Katy Magee via groups.io <Kmagee.bail...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek |
Cool! Merlin picked up an AMGP the last two times I was there, but I was
never able to find it and thought it must be a mistake. Guess not!
On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM Kent Kleman via groups.io <Kentkleman=
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> There was American Golden Plover on the mudflat at Blacks Creek in Ada
> County this morning. It was near the Black-bellied Plover that has been
> there for several days. The AMGP flew in and stayed for about 15 minutes
> before both plovers flew off together. 
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Date: 9/28/26 11:40 am
From: Kent Kleman via groups.io <Kentkleman...>
Subject: [IBLE] American Golden Plover at Blacks Creek |
There was American Golden Plover on the mudflat at Blacks Creek in Ada County this morning. It was near the Black-bellied Plover that has been there for several days. The AMGP flew in and stayed for about 15 minutes before both plovers flew off together. 
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Date: 9/27/26 8:52 am
From: rattlesnake4873 via groups.io <Rattlesnake4873...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Caldwell Ponds |
Denise, are these the several ponds by the Rv resort and the gun club?
Dean
Dean Jones
"A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words." Thomas Huxley
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM Denise Hughes via groups.io <deniseh449=
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> The ponds are finally reopened again after being closed for several
> years. The water is slowly filling the pond. Unfortunately many of the
> trees were taken out by the company that pulled gravel out of the pond
> area.
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> The ponds are on Hwy 20/26, Parma exit (exit 26) off I84. The bridge over
> the freeway (exit 26) has been damaged so the easiest way to get to Hwy
> 20/26 is go to exit 25. You can either backtrack to exit 26 (ramps are
> open) or go across the freeway and down the hill to Farmeay Road. Turn
> left and then turn right onto Hwy 20/26.
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Date: 9/26/26 1:14 pm
From: Denise Hughes via groups.io <deniseh449...>
Subject: [IBLE] Caldwell Ponds |
The ponds are finally reopened again after being closed for several years. The water is slowly filling the pond. Unfortunately many of the trees were taken out by the company that pulled gravel out of the pond area.
The ponds are on Hwy 20/26, Parma exit (exit 26) off I84. The bridge over the freeway (exit 26) has been damaged so the easiest way to get to Hwy 20/26 is go to exit 25. You can either backtrack to exit 26 (ramps are open) or go across the freeway and down the hill to Farmeay Road. Turn left and then turn right onto Hwy 20/26.
Denise Hughes
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Date: 9/19/26 11:23 am
From: Cheryl Huizinga via groups.io <bchuizinga...>
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Evening grosbeak in eagle |
I had a flock of about 25 Evening Grosbeaks in my yard today! Came to our
feeder and pond. So fun!
Cheryl Huizinga - South of Caldwell
On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 9:05 AM Karl Kosciuch via groups.io <kosciuch=
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> I've had evening grosbeak at several locations in Eagle yesterday and
> today including the trees near the eagle bike park and the trees in front
> of Seven Oaks school. Having lived here 7 years this is my first encounter
> with the evening grosbeak and it's cool to see them and hear them locally
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Date: 9/19/26 8:05 am
From: Karl Kosciuch via groups.io <kosciuch...>
Subject: [IBLE] Evening grosbeak in eagle |
I've had evening grosbeak at several locations in Eagle yesterday and today
including the trees near the eagle bike park and the trees in front of
Seven Oaks school. Having lived here 7 years this is my first encounter
with the evening grosbeak and it's cool to see them and hear them locally
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