Birding with Melinda in Idaho: Wolverine Canyon, Scout Mountain, and Hawkins Reservoir and many farmlands in between. This was so much fun. We practiced birding by ear a lot and I tried to take pictures of the many, many, mountain bluebirds, non successfully. The failure of this camera to take pictures of bluebirds was one of the reasons I bought a new camera the following March.
Western Meadowlark
Indian Paintbrush 
American Goldfinch
Gray Catbird (the picture isn’t the best, but I love how he’s sorta photobombing it on near the bottom left.) 
Wild roses
— Jenny
Melinda and I identified a lot of species on these two days:
- American Coots
- American Crows
- American Goldfinches
- American Kestrels
- American Robins
- American Robins
- American White Pelicans
- Bank Swallows
- Barn Swallows
- Black Billed Magpies
- Black Capped Chickadee
- Black Headed Grosbeaks
- Brewers Blackbirds
- Brewers Sparrow
- Brown Headed Cowbirds
- California Gulls
- California Quail
- Canada Geese
- Cedar Waxwings
- Cliff Swallows
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Raven
- Double Crested Cormorants
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Eastern Kingbirds
- Euarasian Collarded-Dove
- Franklins Gulls
- Gray Catbird
- Horned Larks
- House Sparrows
- House Wrens
- Killdeer
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Macgilivray’s Warbler
- Mallards
- Mountain Bluebirds
- Mourning Doves
- Northern Flickers
- Northern Rough Winged Swallows
- Orange Crowned Warblers
- Prairie Falcon
- Red Tailed Hawks
- Red Winged Blackbird
- Ring-Necked Pheasant
- Rock Doves
- Sagebrush Sparrows
- Turkey Vultures
- Warbling Vireo
- Western Bluebirds
- Western Kingbirds
- Western Meadowlarks
- Western Tanagers
- Willow Flycatchers
- Yellow Rumped Warblers
- Yellow Warblers
