IBRC 39-B-11

This email was received from Mike Hlademan on 16 June 2011.  The subject was "Tennessee Warbler singing male Shoshone Co" and the observation took place on 14 June 2011.

Hi guys,

I've been out of the bird loop for the past couple of years mostly concentrating 
on plants and lichens but I still pay attention to what I hear.  This week I was 
working near the MT border north of Prichard and while driving back from a plot 
with the windows down I heard the distinctive 3-part song of a TEWA. I stopped 
the truck, walked back and gave a few pishes and it came right out.  I watched 
it sing for a full 2 minutes in a small doug-fir on the roadcut above me so I 
was looking up at the bird.  It was all white below (including & esp the 
undertail coverts) and I could see the gray crown and distinct white eyebrow and 
sharp thin Vermivora bill.  The forest was small doug-fir with some small white 
pine & grand fir barely topping out above thick maple, willow, and serviceberry 
brush.  I was only at 2880 ft and only a few miles north of Shoshone Base Camp.  
I have coordinates & directions if anyone you know will be in the area and want 
to check it out.

I've always thought I'd hear one up here one summer - it seems reasonable that a 
few are breeding in the far north of the state.  Do any of you know of breeding 
records/attempts in Idaho?  


Thanks for emailing me the results of those rare bird reports,

Mike