A fine look at the "woodies". Fun to hear Paul Giamatti narrate. Kevin Merrell`

Today found me heading west from the Garden City West Bridge. A hooded merganser and ducklings in the river. Yellow warblers heard but seen only as an occasional flash of yellow. The local mom great h

Thanks for the heads up, Cliff. As good an outcome for the loon as one might hope for. In the Garden City pond, the loon chose a scenic, if not a too-confined spot to hang around. My picture of the ce

I'd walked to the pond one day and was chatting with a couple of young men who were fishing off the dock. In excited tones, one of them pointed to a bird on the other side of the pond and said, "See t

Good on you for using your phone, Alan. Like in photography where the best camera is usually the one you have with you, in nature recording, the best recorder is usually the one you have with you. Har

A friend and I took it into our heads to hike to the Chukar Butte frog ponds early this morning. Mallards, a crow passing overhead off in the distance, a chukar, RW blackbirds, a GBH, unidentified sin

Lazulis love Daniels Creek up Bogus Basin Rd above Boise. I should check. I'll praise your name when I find them, Ruth. Kevin Merrell

The natural world revealed. A raptor gained the strength to continue on. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

Thank you, Ceredig. Your long lens blesses us all. Kevin Merrell

An astonishing moment, Tom. Even for one who has seen or heard thousands of birds over the years, a close encounter of the life-and-death kind would be intense. Thanks for sharing. I read that Cooper'

It's an amazing accounting, Roland. While I've never heard of most of those reservoirs, much less visited them, my dad was a hydrologist with the Soil Conservations Service and may have been familiar

Whatever happened to the old saying, "Better living through science?" Coating seeds with neonicotinoid appears to be a two-edged sword. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/10/pesticides-u

If I bump into you, at the pond, Dean, let me know the birds you've seen as I'm basically bird illiterate. If I find you there, good on you for sweating a gallon to get there. Kevin

Marvelous, Diann. Did you observe any critters when you visited the pond?

Anyone ever been to the frog pond in the middle of the Chukar Butte Trail? Even a report of there being a frog pond in the sere, volcanic hills east of Hidden Springs is intriguing. I'm of a mind to g

I love the vision, Tom. While the Hall no doubt was envisioned as a statement of modernity, it has turned out to be a tragic cautionary tale of unintended consequences. Kevin

He's a dandy, Elizabeth. A beautiful photo.

I'm encouraged, Bill and Larry. As one just starting out in birding by way of recording birdsong soundscapes I'm impressed with the seemingly vast number of feathered friends one might become acquaint

That's kind of you, Larry. I had excellent, close views of the birds and recorded their calls at length, but lacked even modest experience. :-) Aren't owls and hawks more or less on the same side sepa

Ha. I thought they were Sharp-shinned Hawks.