“Yank-yank-yank,” sounds came from a large dead cottonwood in my neighbor’s backyard, then an answer came from one of the large firs in my front yard. The sounds were coming from the first pair of red-breasted nuthatches that I have seen in my yard this winter. I guess the snow may have driven them to […]
“Last Monday, we had about 500 mallards join the approximately 1500 trumpeter swans in the corn field,” Josh Rydalch, a Regional Wildlife biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told me on Thursday. “The swans are tall enough to get the ears off the standing corn and I guess the ducks will be […]
“Last Monday, we had about 500 mallards join the approximately 1500 trumpeter swans in the corn field,” Josh Rydalch, a Regional Wildlife biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told me on Thursday. “The swans are tall enough to get the ears off the standing corn and I guess the ducks will be […]
There was a major commotion under my bird feeders. Two “red-shafted” northern flickers were having a major fight bad enough for feathers to be flying. It ended before I could get my camera to record it, but about half an hour later, it happened again in the cloudy bitter cold of a mid-February morning. Taking […]
A lone great gray owl made its second try at harvesting a vole only failing to collect its supper; it would try a third time before disappearing into the thick aspen grove. The deep packed snow created by snow plows clearing the road had made the snow too hard for it to successfully collect its […]