The weatherman predicted a beautiful sunrise for Monday morning on his forecast on Sunday night’s news. No – not in so many words; but with “partly cloudy with high winds later in the day” meant the likelihood of a beautiful sunrise to me and I knew where I wanted to be. At a small lek, […]
Hoping to locate a pair of Hooded mergansers that had spent all winter in the Burton area near Rexburg, I was surprised to locate not only the couple, but 14 of them last week. All of them were busy catching crayfish and small minnows; but most of their busyness was the males chasing other males […]
It has been an interesting spring with people telling me about all the fields covered with “huge snow geese.” I usually ask them to describe what they saw by asking if they have black on their wings. “Nope, but they are snow geese!” they reply. “Do they have a pink or orange bill?” I ask. […]
“I was told that there are a pair of Saw-whet owls here, but I sure cannot find them,” a birding lady asked me as we were on a well-used trail running through some thick brush. “Have you seen them?” “If you turn around and look up about two feet, you may see two yellow eyes […]
“Aren’t they just wonderful – and huge,” an old friend of mine greeted me as I pulled up to her and her husband as they watched the Bald eagles coming into the large cottonwoods on the Camas National Wildlife Refuge. “We have seen nine come in so far this evening.” After the Ron and Marrietta […]