Saturday July 27, 2019
I’ve driven through Victor Idaho on my way to Jackson WY on many occasions. I’ve stopped there for food or fuel but hadn’t thought about birding along the Teton river bottoms till recently. I knew there was a car show and I’ve wanted to try my hand again at photographing cars, so why not combine this with a new birding location. I went online to the Idaho Birding Trail https://idfg.idaho.gov/ifwis/maps/idahobirdingtrail/ site and found a map and guide for the Teton Valley https://idfg.idaho.gov/ifwis/ibt/site.aspx?id=102.
Unfortunately, like many other areas of southeast Idaho the roads may or may not be using their original names and are given number designations. In some ways that worked out to my benefit since I was then able to just drive down and around any non-dead-end or private roads. I was in Victor by 8:30 a.m. and it was a glorious cool morning. Storm clouds more full of drizzle than actual storm scattered across the sky to help make the birding and lighting very good. I birded till the temperature was 67 degrees and the rain had stopped. Then off to the car show for a couple of hours and back to birding.
This place is very scenic, you have farm and ranch lands, barns and fences, streams and river. And there were some awesome birds like the Belted kingfisher fishing and flying to perch first on the phone line then over to the willows.
Tetons in the morning
Canada geese
Old trucks
American goldfinch
American robin
Barn
Back of the barn
Paint horse
Barn and pasture
Side eye
Sandhill crane
Appaloosa horse
My Birdlist
- Red tailed hawk
- Swainson’s hawk
- Osprey
- American kestrel
- Turkey vulture
- American crows
- Common ravens
- European starlings
- Brewer’s blackbirds
- Red winged blackbird
- Black billed magpies
- American robins
- MacGillivray’s warbler
- American goldfinches
- Savannah sparrow
- Unidentified bird with serious buzzy trill at end of an upwards run then several notes evenly spaced
- Lincoln’s sparrow
- House sparrows
- Mountain bluebirds
- Sandhill cranes
- Violet green swallows
- Tree swallows
- Cliff swallows
- Bank swallows
- Barn swallows
- Western kingbirds
- Eastern kingbird
- Eurasian collared doves
- Mourning doves
- Lazuli bunting
- Belted kingfisher
- Western meadowlark
And a lone Mule deer watching the road on one of the mountain passes.
— Jenny
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