Here's a link of a place that posts photos and info on passerines with bill deformities: http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/rouge_river/bills.html I've posted a few...
The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology has just launched its newest citizen-science program in collaboration with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and...
I've always enjoyed mourning doves, but with the new feeders, have been watching them more closely. I saw what appears to be a fledgling already, begging for...
I finally had a chance to check a couple places this evening for owls. I heard a single Great Horned, one Boreal and possibly a single low-pitch hoot from a...
Yesterday's bike ride produced fewer birds, but some great ones. One mature Golden Eagle, 2 Kestrels(setting up house), 21 N. Shovelers on Quinns Pond, and the...
Sunday morning, 3/30/08, around Midvale, Washington County Susan Werner and I saw 7 greater sage grouse (lek 3 miles east of Midvale, lek 3 miles north on ...
This is from birdchat: FYI: In the United States Scott's Miracle-Gro has recalled their Morning Song and Country Pride bird feeding products. The products were...
It certainly raises reg flags in our household when a company decides to act responsibly! I guess it's damned if they do and damned if they don't!? ;-) -- Jim...
Don't kill the messenger, I just forwarded an earlier message.  Denise Hughes Caldwell, Idaho Quoting Jim Greaves : It certainly raises reg flags in our...
#102 Northern Shoveler 3/20 Harrison - Lisa Hardy #103 #104 Long-eared and Western Screech Owl - brought into "Birds of Prey Northwest" for rehab. -...
I drove up to Market Lake after work today and just as last week I found the Marsh iced over and the Mountain Bluebirds in the fields and Russian Olives just...
a pair of mountain chickadees continue to remain in our yard extending their stay to record lengths... at times they have even exhibited some minor courtship...
As a point of comparison, I still have a pair of Mountain Chickadees "around" my yard on the "Boise Bench" (I see them about every other day, probably because...
After a year of knee problems and surgery, I was finally cleared to start doing some of my favorite outdoor activities again so I took the opportunity to take...
My Boise becnch tray feeders are being over run by record numbers of red-winged blackbirds. I haven't seen the mountain chiakadees in a week now at the the...
If you are looking for a different place to look for birds, here is an idea. Ladd Marsh is outside Le Grande, Oregon. Denise Hughes Caldwell, Idaho From:...
I returned today from two weeks away and among the first birds to catch my eye were two Red-naped Sapsuckers in the front yard foraging in one of the big...
I've had to leave my feeders unattended this week, until today. After getting home, I filled them and had just sat down to observe, when my Mountain Chickadee...
Reminder from: ible Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ible/cal Southwest Idaho Birders Association Thursday April 10, 2008 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (The next...
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Apr 4, 2008 12:57 am
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Birding Midvale-Dobie-Hog Creek Loop (Species in Order of Appearance Mike Morrison, Bill Laughlin and Bob Whitlatch) greater sage grouse horned lark meadow...
I was just thinking of posting this message when I saw Michael Wiegand's and Harry Krueger's messages on the same subject. After not seeing any Mountain ...
So that's where they are. Up here on the flanks of the Lost River Range, Mountain Chickadees are present year round. I have them nesting in my yard and in...
The Mountain Chickadee appeared at the feeders again this morning. Also, have a Townsend's Solitaire still feeding on Rocky Mt Juniper berries, a late date for...
This morning I heard the first new arrival for the year in the yard, American Robins calling from several directions. I haven't been filling feeders because...
I just saw a house finch in South Meridian that had a disease that destroyed it's eye. I have posted two photos in IBLE in an album called House Finch. I have...
I saw several black-capped chickadees and 2 brown creepers in the trees along the seasonal stream at Freeman Park, Idaho Falls, yesterday. Coot numbers are...
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Apr 4, 2008 7:47 pm
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Hi Birders, This AM Bobbi Cross and I drove our "patch" to look for birds and found two new species for the Canyon Co. 2008 List. At Lake Lowell's Orchard St....
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Apr 4, 2008 8:31 pm
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When I was leaving work at lunchtime today, I was rewarded by the sight of a Black-necked Stilt landing in a small water hole on the Micron site in Boise. It's...
Was able to get to one legal sage grouse lek early this morning for pictures and viewing. The lek is still 90% covered with snow but six hens and five males...