Thank you. That was very helpful. It appears that a few have been seen in later January and a lot in December. In all my years of birding out there I had never seen them in January or February so was

Quite an accomplishment. We put on 20,000 miles on the car the year we did an Idaho big year and didn't get close to your number. Very impressive. Apologies first for tagging a different topic on to t

Thank you for the directions. I am coming from Reno but spending the night in downtown Nampa. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Tablet

We are going to be in the area tomorrow and would like to see what everyone is talking about. The link shows south east of CJ in the middle of a cultivated field. Can anyone give me better directions

Thanks. Never ocurred to me but I did note the white tail feathers in the photo. I saw an immature Junco at the house the other day. Did not put the bird at the house and the one up on the moutain tog

Yesterday we were birding the top of Schweitzer Mountain and came across this bird. I thought at first it was a Cassin's Finch but upon closer inspection of the photo today I am not so sure. It may be

Thanks Jay. I am still leaning toward the Alder due to the call. Glad to know there has been an additional sighting recently. If anyone is in the area it was about 1/8th of a mile before the eagle obs

Is this a female Lazuli Bunting? Spotted it today off of Stagecoach road off of Dufort Road in Bonner County. Thanks, Linda

On June 7th I spotted this bird at Kootenai Wildlife Refuge auto tour route. When I got home I listened to the calls on ibird pro and deduced it to be an Alder Flycatcher but it is not listed as being

On March 3rd I spotted a Violet-green swallow flying over the Pend Oreille River near Priest River. It was 10 days earlier than I had ever spotted one in this area. Last year one arrived on the 13th m

Thanks to Mike Scott I was able to spot a Rusty Blackbird in the second sheep pen on the left off of Farm rd at around 1230 pm today. The attached photo is a cell phone shot off of my camera so the qu

This past week I spotted an Osprey flying into a tree. It was 10 pm and pitch black out. When I put my flashlight on it it had a fish in its talons and was eating it. First I had ever seen or heard of

I spotted a Eurasian Widgeon swimming with American Widgeons, Red Heads, Coots, Pintails and Mergansers this morning at Denton Slough, near Hope, Idaho. The Widgeon was at the north end of the slough.

While birding Sunnyside Road today along Lake Pend Oreille we spotted a female Black Scoter just west of the Sunnysdie boat ramp. The bird was approx. 20' off shore and slowly traveling west. We also

I live in the Priest River, Idaho area and also saw an Osprey bringing a branch to a nest two days ago. I have lived in the area for over twenty years and have never seen them supplement a nest this l

I need help identifying these feathers. They are 4.5" long. The color is more a blue grey. There was nothing left of the bird but down and smaller grey blue feathers. I live near Sandpoint Idaho to he