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A Green-tailed Towhee over- wintered in 2006-07, one mile east of Bozeman. The towhee was first seen at the person's feeder 12/28/06, after they had been out...
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the MOB-Montana group. File :...
Jeff et al -- Here is link to Colorado state site to which pdf of Green-tailed Towhee is (strangely) hard to link, other than download as a pdf file - which...
I've been following this thread. The way in which most of us interact with the world around us is so antiquated that it is about to doom our species. There's...
When I announced that we'd posted some hummingbird accounts on the Web, I neglected to acknowledge Ned and Gigi Batchelder for the tremendous assistance I...
During an afternoon visit, I observed a single Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) in with the Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) on the ice at the north end of...
Off line or on line, the answers will be of use to a great many of us I am sure! I use OLD lens technology (film lenses mounted on digital SLRs), and KNOW...
Hey all, Today around 12:45PM I found a single Great-tailed Grackle in the parking lot of the Gallatin Valley Mall in Bozeman. After watching it for 10-15min...
Jim: I am on my second digiscoping setup, with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS6 camera. This 12 Mp, 12x optical/24x digital zoom with a Leica lens also works well...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the MOB-Montana group: Well it's finally time for the January photo contest and we have a good group of...
Nick - Great find! For those interested in telling the two larger grackles apart [GT and BT], here is a useful link, which as discussion of iris color just to...
I use a Canon 40D with a 400mm fixed lens for bird shots. Here is a link to some reviews of the super zoom digital compact cameras. They have some pretty...
Jim, Currently I'm using 2 Canon camera/lens setups: Rebel t1/50D (15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor) with an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM standard zoom for everything...
MOB-sters: The immature Ferruginous Hawk first found and photographed by Lewis and Lynda Young on the Kalispell CBC was photographed again by Denny Olson on...
Until recently, I was using Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 12.1MP Digital Camera with 18x POWER Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.7 inch LCD. It was light-weight,...
Wow, a great day of birding. I headed to Benton Lake. Off the Wilson Road I saw 5 Lapland Longspurs for sure. There may have been a few more flying. I did get...
On a short afternoon drive through Lower Valley this afternoon Bill & I saw (and heard :)!!) a large flock of Red-winged Blackbirds. They were off Lower...
1 heard on 1/31. Dozen or so seen and photoed 2/1. All at Hironymous Park. Present through today. Well over 30 days earlier than last year. No finches at 5th...
Thanks for posting this Arla. I'm new to this list and from Fort Shaw. 25 west of Great Falls. I've been wondering if anyone has seen a Snowy Owl over...
Welcome Peggy, I have received a few reports of single sightings - but nothing had been found on follow-ups. There has been a report from First People's...
Hello Nick, et al in Bozeman Did anyone see the Great-tailed Grackle today in Bozeman. I haven't been there for a while and i know it has all changed. Which...
We would, also, be interested in knowing if it was sighted today. Plan on coming down tomorrow. Anyone willing to meet up? Sharon Dewart-Hansen Helena, MT...
It's interesting that this bird was found in a parking lot. Here in Tucson, Arizona where I spend the winter that is where you can always find Great-tailed...
Today Andrew Guttenberg and I watched the Great-tailed Grackle from 1:40PM-2:20PM. We immediately found the bird foraging in the middle of an empty parking...
All -- Don't be too happy about GTGR in Montana! About 1980, I found a female in Goleta California (Santa Barbara County) that birders around the state were...
Lark and another driver (semi-truck) had to dodge around a Ruffed Grouse that was "sitting" in the road about a mile east of Thompson River bridge (4 miles or...