Last week while photographing owls along the Henrys Fork of the Snake River with a friend, we discussed the beautiful flocked trees, rose hips, powerlines, fence wires and even weeds in the freezing fog. The beautiful pure white ice crystals seemed to cover everything. In our conversation, both of us referred to the ice crystals […]
“I’ve got a ton of turkeys down by my place,” commented a friend of mine, last Sunday at church. “There is a lot more than I saw last year and I had about 60 at the starts of the winter.” My friend and I have a stubble field and a hay field between us and […]
Forgive me, please; for I have sinned!! A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if steller’s jays were also called “camp robbers,” and I replied “No, Gray jays are the camp robbers.” Bird experts claim the Gray jay is the true camp robber, while some mature old folks (local residents over 80 years old) […]
While watching Trumpeter swans and Mallard ducks feeding along the Texas Slough in the Burton area, west of Rexburg, two flashes of powder-blue caught my attention. The raucous rattling sound indicated a pair of belted kingfishers were chasing each other along warm seeps where minnows were trapped in pockets of water. The male had caught […]
“We spent two and a half years dodging Covid only to catch it just before Thanksgiving,” commented my wife as we observed our positive test strips. “Now we will have to spend the holiday alone; again.” We had an extremely busy week before — a Miss Madison pageant that brought our family together, two days […]