I saw a brown-headed cowbird, adult male, on my way to walmart in Blackfoot today at about 11:00 am. It had a distinct brown head, blackish body, and was built similar to a blackbird. I got a pretty g

Murphy's neck adult Male hooded mergansers lower dam red breasted mergansers loon several horned grebe 1 eared grebes w.grebe 2 small flocks ruddy ducks lions pond 1adult blk crown night Heron 1juvie

5:30 water was calm below dam group of 13 ruddy ducks small bunch red breasted mergansers 9 horned grebe 2 ear grebe another group of 6 ruddy 3 w. Grebe 1 Clark's have not seen the loon last 3 trips

On Saturday October 24 and following Friday's early winter storm, I birded in Latah and Nez Perce Counties. My first stop was at the UI Dairy Ponds in Moscow, where the most notable bird was a late PE

After falling on an icy patch on the boardwalk through the marsh at Esther Simplot Park (ESP), my ride improved incredibly. After getting all the usual suspects along the way to Silver Lake, I was sur

Folks, I had a very unexpected visitor today at my suet feeder. I was unable to photograph this individual, but will try again tomorrow. Also using the just installed suet today were, Stellers, Canada

8:15 am 1500+snow geese several cackles 8 horned grebes w.& Clark's 2 dunlins on steps 1 ruddy duck lions pond 1 hooded merganser

Not knowing whether many local birders receive these RBA's, thought I'd share this interesting bunch of reports... colder weather inbound and tides are shifting, eyiyi........ Larry ----- Forwarded Me

I had a female Anna's coming and going from my feeder for about two hours this morning here in the North End of Boise. Beautiful red-speckled patch on her throat. Lovely to watch her in this fall ligh

Normally I only get immature Cooper’s Hawks, but this morning an adult male showed up on my bird perch! I got a good action shot… and some others as well… Enjoy this beautiful day! Jonathan, Horseshoe

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

L.L. lower dam. Circa 5:p.m. geese galore 5 species. Near boat ramp snows 100s and along dam with cans .Ross white front &cackling lots of horned grebe w.grebe & one below? Gull looks to be western ju

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Hoping to run into some of the exciting shorebird action, Heidi & I tried Dry Lakes in the last hour before sunset. No golden or BB plovers but at least 1,000 gulls cycling through and we observed the

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Hi all, bit of a story here, bear with me.So today my cat was outside without me, (please no hate, I love my kitty), he managed to grab an Evening Grosbeak from the birdbath. I saw it from the kitchen

Gmorning hummer fans !! Our last observed dates (LOD's) this year to date....... Broad-tailed - we don't encounter hereabouts, and I dearly miss them Calliope 12 Aug Rufous 21 Sep Black-chinned 21 Sep

My apologies for cluttering up your inbox, but I had enough interesting birds today that I felt the need to share. First, a W.S. Owl woke me just before dawn. Later, I discovered a Cassin’s Finch in m

In case Carter Strope, Denise Hughes, or Cheryl Huizinga monitor this site, or someone can relay a message to them -- your October 14th eBird list from Dry Creek mentioned: "Photos soon. Large pluvali

After yesterday afternoon’s (Wed/Oct 14) amazing reports I decided to head out to Dry Lakes this morning. I arrived about 9:30AM. There was one other birder there and it was nice to meet Junice Neubau