Hey all, RL here. Got a "poser" for you all. Setting the scene: This past Saturday was Global Big Day. Here in Ada Co,. Gary Worthington and I were "birding buds" for the day. Our first stop, 0745, wa

Definitely a Townsend's Solitaire. CGB. RL

Good deal there on the re-finding Peter. Was hoping the bird would come back for you. When I last saw it yesterday it had shot out of the tree in full AB, sorry, afterburner. For those of you who want

Kerry, RL here. Keep that heated hummer feeder out and lit. The little critter has decided to winter over in SE Boise this year and is here for the duration of the season regardless of what you or I m

Hey there Boys and girls in ible-land. Been studying and culling my not-so-good photos I took yesterday at Morris Hill Cem. here in Boise. Was very bothered. Then went back to the photos taken by othe

I agree with Mark's id. I had two small flocks at Blue Lake Sewage Lagoons yesterday. There were both young as well as adult birds. All heavily mottled, some traces of rufous. Tried to make the shorte

Hey out there ible'rs, RL, here. Not exactly birds, but, useful for birders to know. While not a big or unexpected announcement here in SW ID,... ticks ... are out. Picked one up yesterday, likely fro

Tom, RL here. I tried doing the memory thing for a given place. Didn't work too well for me, too many birds at some of the places I get to. And being badly scatter-brained nowadays, why I still use pe

Best entry is the one marked with a blue Ted Trueblood Ln. sign, where Shaw Rd. (green st. sign) crosses the MH-Grandview hwy. Watch for the brown Ted Trueblood WMA sign. Takes you to the viewing plat

Hey there ible... RL here. For you ebird users. Made an entry error that's gotten on the daily ebird alert report. Was not paying attention and accidentally logged HEGU x GLGU as a continuing bird sig

Thank you. And a Merry Happy Thanksgiving to you both and all who are yours. CGB. RL

Sigh! I know what you mean Larry about Cornell kind of messing with ebird just for the sake of change it would seem. You have to type in Ada as normally but when the scroll of places pops up you have

Hey all, RL here... again. Jason Talbot and I birded Elmore and Owyhee Co.'s Wednesday on our Veteran's Day push. All along the river we noticed goldeneye most everywhere. A few clumps and smaller sca

This past Friday, Big 71, prime number so I can't split it. I also just realized something. It was one thing to send a copy of the cartoon to individuals, but, I put it on a public forum. There could

Opening Day here in Idaho. An "oldie-but-a-goodie". Have had several years, thought I'd pass it on for those who've not seen it before. Hope posting this goes thru as I've not done this type before. C

Hey all, RL here. Day I went looking for the Golden Plover, took a bit, found it in the green field to the east of the playa. This is the field that if you use the road as a keyboard looks a lot like

Hey all. Tom, your couple times heard Blue Jay down near Plantation would fit. Mark Collie, who now lives in the Collister area but up and across State St. from there, reported to me he'd heard a BLJA

Hey out there in "ible"land, RL here. Recently Jay reported and sent a newspaper link, about a large number of migrant insectivore bird deaths in New Mexico. Some of you may have heard from other sour

Tolls would be nothing. What if you'd been asked to produce a passport. ;-} CGB. RL

Hey "ible", RL here. World Shorebirds Day is upcoming, so I was out scouting reservoirs in preparation for the shorebird counts that I do. I knew folks would be looking at Black's and Indian Ck. Res.'