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Fighting my way through a thicket of Russian olive bushes is usually a very unpleasant experience for me. With all the thorns, sharp branches and cobwebs to work my way through, it is not my idea of fun. But I had seen a Long-eared owl fly into it twice in a week and I wanted to find it.
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“Any weird birds show up today?” I asked my wife as I dropped the kokanee in the sink after being successful at Ririe Reservoir.
“Nope – just the 10 flickers fighting over their food in the backyard,” she replied.
Early last fall, when there were a lot of Blue jays being sighted in the area, I decided to offer a lot of different foods – create a “bird restaurant” – to attempt to attract different birds into our yard. I did have a Blue jay show up for a couple of days, but we ended up with up to 12 Northern flickers making our backyard their winter home. It has been a very colorful experience.
Wild swan chase: Downed bird brings adventure to INL employees
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When he went to work early the morning of Nov. 11, little did KC Crump realize that in a matter of hours he would be working up a sweat chasing a wild, potentially injured tundra swan through the sagebrush.
It was 5 degrees Fahrenheit around 8 a.m. when Crump, a laborer for Idaho National Laboratory, arrived at a facility on the lab’s desert site, the Specific Manufacturing Capability, to remove some of the new snow that had fallen the night before. As they walked across the parking lot toward the SMC cafeteria, Crump and his co-worker Ricky Hernandez noticed some strange tracks. Circular and about five inches in diameter, they first thought the tracks might have been left by a moose. But when they looked over to the northwest corner of the fence, they saw a white swan on the ground with some blood on its wing.
When he went to work early the morning of Nov. 11, little did KC Crump realize that in a matter of hours he would be working up a sweat chasing a wild, potentially injured tundra swan through the sagebrush.
It was 5 degrees Fahrenheit around 8 a.m. when Crump, a laborer for Idaho National Laboratory, arrived at a facility on the labâs desert site, the Specific Manufacturing Capability, to remove some of the new snow that had fallen the night before. As they walked across the parking lot toward the SMC cafeteria, Crump and his co-worker Ricky Hernandez noticed some strange tracks. Circular and about five inches in diameter, they first thought the tracks might have been left by a moose. But when they looked over to the northwest corner of the fence, they saw a white swan on the ground with some blood on its wing.