The Great Backyard Bird Count of 2022 was a success for me as I was able to see and record some beautiful birds from multiple areas even though the weather was not great. But some of the numbers of birds had changed since the Christmas counts. For example, the 161 count of Rough-legged Hawks near […]
It started on Friday – one of my two favorite bird counts of the winter – the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and it will last through Presidents Day on Monday. My other favorite bird count is the Howe Christmas Bird Count that is usually held between Christmas and New Years Day, but this […]
“Here they come; they are running 20 to 40 feet deep,” Mike yelled at me from 50 yards away. I grabbed two baited rods and headed for his ice-hut. He had forgotten to drill a couple of extra holes for me, so he had six kokanees on the ice before I got a hole drilled. […]
It was a better affectionate love scene than in any movie I have ever seen. The male Golden Eagle waited on a cross-piece of an electrical pole as another Golden approached. Instead of flying away, he moved closer to the pole to allow the other to join him. They talked together for a minute and […]
Ririe Reservoir froze over from the dam up to the Juniper boat ramp on New Year’s Eve and two days later on Monday the ice had grown to three inches. I had dreams of spending Wednesday, Friday and Saturday on the ice, fishing for the amazing kokanee. But to paraphrase a famous writer, “the plans […]