A new person, Diane Gettinger, has taken over transcribing the RBA
for Southern Idaho but she is only posting it to BIRDWEST. I am forwarding
it to OBOL and Tweeters for the time being. I have suggested that she post
it to OBOL and TWEETERS when she posts it to BIRDWEST and she said she would
look into it.

Deb Beutler
Pullman, WA
dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu

>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:44:45 -0700
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>From: gettinger <gettinger at EXECU.NET>
>Subject: [BIRDWEST] South Idaho Bird Alert
>To: BIRDWEST at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>
>- RBA
>* South Idaho
>* Feb. 23, 1998
>* IDSO9802.23
>
>- birds mentioned
>
>Mew Gull
>Herring Gull
>Californian Gull
>Ringed-billed Gulls
>Gyrfalcon
>Rosy Finches
>Harris' Sparrow
>Blue Jay
>Greater White-fronted Geese
>Red-shouldered Hawk
>White-throated Sparrows
>White-crowned Sparrows
>
>
>- transcript
>
>Hotline: South Idaho Rare Bird Alert 208-236-3337
>To Report: Chuck Trost 208-236-3337
>Compiler: Diana Gettinger 208-378-9325
>
>
>This is the South Idaho Bird Alert, brought to you by the Idaho Museum
>of Natural History. This alert was updated on Monday, February 23rd.
>
>Highlights for this week include two RED-SHOULDERED HAWK that was seen
>last week, one at Fort Boise, and the other at Lake Lowell, near Caldwell.
Both
>HARRIS' and WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS are still at the fish hatchery at
>American Falls, and the adult MEW GULL was again at Aberdeen's Big Hole.
>A GYRFALCON and two species of ROSY FINCHES are being seen in the Sun
>Valley area.
>
>Two RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS were spotted in western Idaho last week. One was at
>Fort Boise, just west of Parma on the Oregon border, at about B-1 on page
34 of the Idaho
>DeLorme Atlas. The other was near the Shaffer entrance to Lake Lowell.
You can call
>John Gatchet at 208-459-1627(work) or 208-455-1317 at home for further
information. There
>are also several flocks of GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE at Fort Boise, as
well as a
>BLUE JAY last week.
>
>Last Friday, we found a HARRIS' SPARROW and three dark morph WHITE-THROATED
SPARROWS
>at the American Falls Trout Hatchery. To get there cross the dam at
American Falls, make a
>left, then another immediate left, and follow the Sportsman Access signs.
The HARRIS' SPARROW
>was with WHITE-CROWNEDS in the clearing under the power lines, and the
WHITE-THROATED
>SPARROWS were in the bushes near the gauging station on the east side of
the hatchery.
>
>An adult MEW GULL was spotted last week on the ice at Aberdeen's Big Hole,
which is on the
>north side of American Falls Reservior. To get there turn east at the
Tiger Hut on the north
>side of town, and follow the Sportsman Access signs about three miles down
East Boat Dock Road.
>The are also many CALIFORNIA and RING-BILLED GULLS as well as a few HERRING
GULLS
>on Big Hole.
>
>A GYRFALCON has bee a regular resident on the poles just east of Gannett,
which is on the
>shortcut between Picabo and Bellview. This is at A-6 on page 27 of the
Idaho Atlas. There are
>also both BLACK and GRAY-CROWNED ROSY FINCHES coming to a feeder in the town of
>Triumph, which is about 6 miles up the East Fork Road, about 5 miles north
of Hailey. This is
>at about C-6 on page 37 of the Idaho Atlas.
>
>Finally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been putting neck collars
on TRUMPETER SWANS
>in the area. If you see any marked birds please try to read the
alpha-numeric numbers on the
>collar and report it and the location to Steve Bouffard at (208) 237-6616
or e-mail at
>steve_bouffard at mail.fws.gov.
>
>
>Diana Gettinger
>gettinger at execu.net
>208-378-9325 (home)
>
>- end transcript
>
>

Deb Beutler
Department of Zoology
P.O. Box 644236
Washington State Univerisity
Pullman, Whitman Co., WA
dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu