Found along the road side yesterday, throat appeared torn, maybe a dropped raptor kill? Color on face, gray legs, and length of beak has us guessing some kind of grouse or partridge - there are game a

Greetings IBLE, I hope you all had a wonderful New Year. With 2020 finally in the rear view, I wanted to take a moment to look back on my year of birding and give some well overdue thanks to a number

I am disappointed with my photos and I clicked off dozens. I think there are some Black Rosy-Finches mixed in the large flock with Gray-crowned. Was 32 and breezy at the time I revisited the site in E

My daily bike ride can produce a wide range of birds, including raptors. While I don’t have any photos of the birds I see, I thought I would share a particularly great finish to my ride. I didn‘t see

I think I attached the wrong pics to my earlier note about raptors. Here are two pics of the dark, red-phase Ferruginous Hawk I found perched on a utility pole today. alan -- Alan C Gregory Lt. Col.,

Saw many buteos this morning in rural Elmore County. I hope I have the ID right on this bird: Ferruginous Hawk -- Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force Public Affairs Alumni

Many of these hardy songbirds were foraging on a plowed field across the road from the sagebrush flat where I found the rosy-finches. -- Alan C Gregory Lt. Col., USAF, Ret. Mountain Home, ID Air Force

Anyone have an idea of what species these birds are? I photographed the flock over sage flats a mile or so from Old Highway 30 in Elmore County this afternoon. When I think of songbirds flocking in wi

Hi Birders, On October 19 At SW end of Lake Lowell Lower Dam in Canyon County, I saw and photographed a Red-tailed Hawk in a tree that had a large red tag on its wing. After asking a couple of raptor

Happy New Year Dear Birders, Hope you all are fine; we are doing a short study how COVID-19 has changed birding. Please help us and answer a few questions, that take some minutes. You can also forward

...and was still there yesterday (Sunday) PM. John Shortis

I watched an American Kestrel catch prey yesterday along Old Highway 30, Elmore County. Here are pics of the raptor eating atop a utility pole and another shot of the gird after its meal. Alan Gregory

here's a nice shot.... https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/291832011?__hstc=60209138.fe812f3673abff1bbc9f8a5cb5f8e991.1609174112835.1609733640326.1609786779721.21&__hssc=60209138.2.1609786779721&__hsfp=

Can tell when one of the winter resident accipiters is out & about, as my feeders suddenly become silent. With our recent cold spell & snowstorms, my feeders are getting a lot of activity from the usu

Another poster's msg. about a Kestrel prompted me to research my electronic photo file and refind the pics I took of a young American Kestrel on the roof of Mountain Home Junior High School three year

This is a little better

Not a good photo it's a kestrel with fresh caught meal .its on the metal pole near beginning of outlet canal lower dam this is second time I found one with fresh caught meal same location. Looking alo

Dondi Black reports that the yellow-billed loon is still at Bell Rapids boat launch site as of approximately 11 am on December 24. -- Louisa Evers elouisa603@...

Is the great gray still in montour area

Howdy folks Boise's CBC was held today in a mix of very foggy (~1/3 to 1/2 of the circle?) to beautiful sunny weather. A number of misses but some great finds. Thanks a ton to everyone who participate