For the past several years, the Anchorage Audubon chapter has sponsored a field trip to Seward in February. Seward, AK, which in nice conditions is about a 2 to 2 ½ hour trip south of Anchorage, has quite a different variety of winter birds than Anchorage. It’s warmer and enough south that more birds overwinter … More Seward mid-winter field trip
On my way home from working in Meridian (near Boise) I stopped off in American Falls to see what I could see. There weren’t a large number of species, but there were some awesome birds. I wish I could have gotten the gleam in this magpie’s eye. This was my surprise bird, a Hooded merganser!?! … More Spring at American Falls
I really hadn’t expected to do another post on my WA visit this time. My original plans were to head back to Seattle, do some shopping, and hit the hotel for an early night. But I did a little shopping and realized I was bored with that, so I headed over to Des Moines (yes, … More A bonus WA post
This time with a memory card in the camera. I’d found a full one in my wallet so I copied everything over to the laptop and deleted all the files so I once again had a mostly empty card. (Okay, I need to be clear here: I’m an archivist. I don’t regard sd cards as … More Whidbey Island and slightly north
So here’s the embarrassing thing. I managed, while working on my LA birding account, not to return my sd card to my camera. And somehow, through umpteen times of turning the camera on and off today, managed to never notice the “no sd card” notice on the screen until I got back to my place … More South Whidbey Island, WA
After spending four hours at the Bear River Migratory Bird refuge I decided to wander back home. I ended up taking a backroad to Logan then up US 91 with stops and turn outs. I didn’t see many birds and took pictures of nothing except this one bird that posed and posed and posed. After … More End of the Birding Day
I left Pocatello super early in the morning so I could be at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge before dawn. It was an excellent plan and I was able to see a lot of wonderful birds. Sunrise with Ravens Sunrise over the Wasatch Front Great Horned Owls Red winged blackbird looking for love The … More Early Birding the BRMBR
April 2016 – to West Yellowstone, Mammoth, Bozeman (and rock show), and back to West Yellowstone and home with Shanna, John, & Bill. Trumpter swan, Island Park ID Gibbon river Beryl spring Mammoth terraces Top of the Mammoth terraces Bison Moody terraces Looking down the white terraces at Mammoth Some of us Bison Baby bison Bozeman … More Time Travel: April 2016 Yellowstone
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