BlueRavenBirders

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Melinda and I woke up really early, Cheryl joined us and we headed North for birding at 7:00 a.m. We saw so many birds!! 75 species identified both by sight and by sound.

Melinda and I practiced with bird calls on the drive, paying special attention to the warblers and other birds expected at that location. We had never seen Common yellowthroats at Market Lake, but now that we were listening for them they were everywhere! Seriously, must be 100 or more of them. Eventually, our ears led our eyes and we actually got to see these cute elusive birds. They are shy enough that I never was able to get my camera up and focused for a photo. But maybe next time…

We started at Market Lake and then went to Camas. For the past couple of years, every time I’ve gone to Camas the only water has been on what I term the inner loop. This time there was water everywhere and it was awesome! This was definitley one of the biggest days I’ve had in Idaho/Utah.

Yellowheaded blackbirds

Cliff swallows

Great horned owlet

Turtle

Canada geese with babies & Cinnamon teal on the bank

Dark look from a napping Northern shoveler

Redhead pair

Marsh wren

Western grebe

Forster’s tern

Osprey on colorful nest

Eared grebes bracketed by Western grebes

Black headed grosbeak

Cinnamon teal

Ruddy duck

Eared grebe

Trumpeter swans
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Lesser scaup

Pile of goats

The goats were just hanging in this pile across from the elementary school. No fence and no goat herder in sight. Too amusing. – Jenny

Birds

1. European starlings
2. Black billed magpies
3. American crows
4. Yelllow headed blackbirds
5. Cliff swallows
6. American robins
7. Western meadowlarks
8. Savannah sparrows
9. Red tailed hawks
10. House sparrows
11. Sandhill cranes
12. Western kingbirds
13. Marsh wrens
14. Red winged blackbirds
15. Mallards
16. Yellow warblers
17. Canada geese
18. American kestrels
19. Swainson’s hawks
20. Mourning doves
21. Gadwalls
22. House finches
23. Ruffed grouse
24. Barn swallow
25. Eastern kingbird
26. Ring necked ducks
27. Cinnamon teals
28. Lesser scaups
29. Northern harriers
30. Northern shovelers
31. Killdeer
32. Blue winged teals
33. Common yellowthroat
34. Pied billed grebe
35. Western grebes
36. Redheads
37. Ring billed gulls
38. American avocets
39. American coots
40. Brown headed cowbirds
41. Double crested cormorants
42. American white pelicans
43. Tree swallows
44. Forster’s terns
45. Northern rough winged swallows
46. Black crowned night heron
47. Grey catbird
48. Yellow rumped warblers (audubons)
49. Willow flycatcher
50. Western tanager
51. Great horned owls
52. Wilsons warblers
53. Calliope hummingbird
54. Bullock’s oriole
55. Brewer’s blackbirds
56. Clark’s grebe
57. White faced ibis
58. Loggerhead shrike
59. Ruddy ducks
60. Osprey
61. Eared grebes
62. Black headed grosbeak
63. Swainson’s thrush
64. Peregrine falcon
65. Golden crowned kinglet
66. Vesper’s sparrows
67. Lark sparrows
68. Brewer’s sparrow
69. Trumpeter swans
70. Northern pintails
71. Great blue heron
72. Willet
73. Spotted sandpiper
74. American wigeons
75. Rock doves

Animals

1. Muskrat
2. Mule deer
3. Badger
4. Turtle
5. Snake
6. Pile of Goats