West Bank Park keeps giving me more lifers. One has to just look. This evening I was using my compact scope to look for the Common Loon that I saw tossing...
Hello everyone, We saw "our" house wren for the first time this morning. He was hopping around in a bush just outside the kitchen window and then later on he...
MOBsters, For the last years we've had 4/26 for Calliopes and 4/28 for Rufous. Not this year. Finally we welcomed our first male calliope today at 1:48. We've...
Good Morning MOBsters, Just returned from a morning in my Ruffed Grouse Blind. It was a nice morning with high overcast and a very cooperative Bull grouse. I...
A RED-NECKED GREBE [#099 for us for Sanders Co in 2008] was swimming, diving, then roost-floating with a group of Common Goldeneyes south of Goose Park,...
Hi all, When I got home from work this afternoon I found what I initially thought was my first Chipping Sparrow of the year bathing in my pond. It was a bit...
Greetings There was a SINGLE Black Rosy Finch at the feeding area in our backyard this morning. It had a hard time deciding where to feed with the great...
Could someone please tell me what I should be looking for to try and distinguish between breeding plumage Brewer's Blackbirds and Rusty Blackbirds? In...
Mob, A strong easterly flow of moisture over night brought little rain, but spectacular numbers of birds along with a few surprises to the park this morning....
No Harlequins seen in GNP — yet. I did some checking yesterday will check a little more in coming days. There's still lots of snow. It snowed on and off...
After reaching 13 in number the TURKEY VULTURES seem to have disbanded or changed location! Haven't seen them for several days. This morning brought a small...
I was treated to a Broad-winged Hawk flying over the school in Medicine Lake yesterday afternoon...I usually see about 1 per spring. It almost made it over to...
A LINCOLN'S SPARROW, our first MT [#161; and county #098 for 2008] 30 April & 01 May, at our feeder. 5 swans on the lake yesterday and I heard a Common loon...
MOB-sters: Last night after returning from Washington state I took a quick lap of my usual spots around Somers. At Wiley Dike I heard an unusual call note and...
I learning yesterday that a Whooping Crane was found at Medicine Lake NWR a day after I was there. Then I found out today that it was there on Sunday and I...
Hi folks, A Yellow-rumped warbler and a pair of Cassin's finches appeared today at our house for the first time this year. We were especially excited to see...
I finally got my YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER today. One male Audubon's YRW visited my yard and gave a taster for the rest of the amazingly colored birds to come...
Mobsters Someone sent an email to me to ask "Which Bear Canyon?" Sorry, I should have know that there was more than one in this huge state!! 'Tis the one on...
I will be visiting Montana from May 3-13 and will have plenty of time to do some birding from May 3-8. I will be spending most of my time in Western Montana...
Dear Mobbers, Last Saturday morning I was looking at the white-crowned sparrows (3 or 4 of them) munching on bird seed that I scatter on the walk at my house....
After consulting Skaar's Montana Bird Distribution, thought I should post the observation of 9 Marbled Godwits in quarter-latilong 14B at Pablo Reservoir...
Nature Hello Fellow Birders, Went to Benton Lake yesterday to check on the local feathered population. After being in Florida for a week and a half, it's...
Hello birders. I posted a few pictures of some birds we saw this past weekend in Beaverhead County. Of note is a Cattle Egret. Not as glamourous as some of...
Hi all, I headed northeast this weekend and was able to have a 3 Longspur species weekend, all in breeding plumage. I was unable to find any Smith's Longspurs...
Hi All, Here is some more information on the banded Piping Plover I mentioned last week. Beth Madden put out the call on the identity of the bird to the plover...
