Took Friday off and headed towards Heber City for the first College rodeo of the season. I left early in order to visit the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (https://www.fws.gov/refuge/bear_river_migratory_bird_refuge/) . This refuge is huge, and has a lovely auto tour loop. I knew water levels in Idaho were high, but I was unprepared to … More College Rodeo – Heber City UT
I was adding the three Cornell Waterfowl foldout pamphlets to my LibraryThing account and started thinking about my bird books. LibraryThing is a website that lets you create your own home catalog of your books. It’s free if you only want to catalog 200 books or less. Paid personal accounts are $10/year or $25 for … More My Birdy Library
I went out birding on Sunday and while I saw quite a few birds, all were the usual suspects: Canada geese, magpies, crows, mallards, goldeneyes, robins etc… And none of them (excepting this robin) would hold still for pictures. Shockingly not even the geese would pose. Just outside of town there was a herd of … More Antelope aka Pronghorn
I had to go to Idaho Falls for an appointment and had the afternoon free. My first thought was to go shopping. I have been thinking of collecting more books on art and design and they have some decent used book stores. Also they have more thrift and antique stores and I’ve got silverware, serving … More Idaho Falls to American Falls – Feb 2017
Cornell offers several fabulous online courses to help you be a better birder. The cost for the Duck & Waterfowl course is $49.00 some of the classes cost more, some less. All of the funds help support the work of the people behind this wonderful site. For access, go here: https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/courses/ I’ve taken the Duck … More Bird Academy: Duck & Waterfowl
As somebody who lives in Alaska, I find it kind of weird to apply the word winter to Los Angeles but technically it is. And I saw at least one person wearing a puffy down jacket zipped up over her mouth, sitting in an enclosed car on a 60+ degree day in Capistrano, so I … More Winter birding in the Los Angeles area
Friday afternoon I went birding along the less snowy backroads nearby. I have never birded in winter before, always waiting till the stirrings of spring. I knew that birds were here year round, after all I still see crows, starlings, and doves around my house and campus. I’ve even read about strategies they use to survive … More Birding Winter Backroads
It must have been starting out my year on a birding trip with Jenny to the Salton Sea, Los Angeles area, and the central California coast, that made this a pretty productive year for me too! I took short trips to central western Michigan and Atlanta and spent the better part of a week in … More Arlene’s 2016 bird list
2016 was a very good bird year for me. It began with a trip to Southern California and ended with birding from Idaho to Texas. For me seeing 202 total species was a very good year. I could add in peacocks, hybrid mallards, domestic geese, domestic ducks, and chickens for a total of 207, but … More Jenny’s 2016 Bird List
It’s Anchorage, it’s winter. While we have a certain number of bird species that overwinter (more so as time goes by and our winters keep getting warmer) it’s still not the most productive of birding locations in January. Unless, of course, you’re willing to hang out with the birds that you do see and watch … More Winter in Anchorage
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