UI Dairy (over the past week) & misc. Moscow sightings

Hi All - 

I've been checking the UI Dairy ponds (behind the Palouse Mall on the west side of Moscow) for water/shorebirds every few days over the past week. There is decent mud here although not as good as last summer when a leaky pipe created an attractive muddy area above one of the ponds. It's not Mann Lake but is < 10 minutes from my house so fits into my schedule (and importantly my family's schedule!). A scope is very helpful here.

I've listed below species of interest (mostly waterbirds) and not including the regular group of Mallards and Canada Geese. The Aug. 12 Cliff Swallow, a presumed migrant, gets me up to 100 species for the year for my eBird Moscow "Patch List".

On the migrant front I've continued to have a few Yellow Warblers around my yard (perhaps the same ones lingering) and this morning a couple of Wilson's Warblers. There were also a few Wilson's Warblers at the UI Arboretum late this morning and a Belted Kingfisher departing the Arboretum going north perhaps headed for Paradise Ck. just the other side of campus.

thanks, Charles.

U. of Idaho Dairy ponds:

August 6

Killdeer 36 (highest of several careful counts, many resting on mud in the heat)

Spotted Sandpiper 2

Semipalmated Sandpiper 1

Western Sandpiper 1

August 8

Cinnamon Teal 8 

Killdeer 1

Spotted Sandpiper 4

Long-billed Dowitcher 1 (worn breeding plumage)

Western Sandpiper 2

Least Sandpiper 1

August 10

Northern Pintail 1

Cinnamon Teal 10 

Killdeer 4

Spotted Sandpiper 1

Greater Yellowlegs 1 

Baird's Sandpiper 1

Western Sandpiper 1

Least Sandpiper 1

August 12

Northern Shoveler 9

Cinnamon Teal 10 

Killdeer 5

Spotted Sandpiper 2

Greater Yellowlegs 2 

Baird's Sandpiper 1

Western Sandpiper 1

Cliff Swallow 1

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Charles Swift
Moscow, Idaho
46°43′54″ N, 116°59′50″ W
email: chaetura@gmail.com