July 29th, Anna, Chris, Mark, and I all got up early to begin birding Madera Canyon. We were going to have a pretty full day … Read More
Past Two Days…..
Anna and I have been out near the Island Park area of Idaho trying to conduct Flammulated Owl surveys in the Targhee National Forest for … Read More
MAPS Banding at Lucky Peak 6/5/11
This morning Idaho Bird Observatory had its first MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) banding session of the year up at Lucky Peak. The purpose … Read More
Lapland Longspur – Canyon County, Idaho
This afternoon while out searching for Long-billed Curlew nests in the ACEC near Middleton, Idaho I spotted a male Lapland Longspur foraging. Anna Fasoli, Heidi … Read More
Birding CJ Strike WMA and Ted Trueblood WMA
On Easter, Alex and I drove south towards the Snake River to bird the CJ Strike WMA and Ted Trueblood WMA. At a small marsh … Read More
Sparrow Drive at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Florida
On my day off last week, I attended a “sparrow” drive at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park. This event was organized by the park biologist, … Read More
Golden-crowned Sparrow and Orange-crowned Warbler – Chesapeake Farms, MD
After chasing (and finding!) the Northern Wheatear this morning, Klye Aldinger, Ian Gardner, and I drove about an hour farther south to try and find … Read More
BESP: American Tree Sparrows
American Tree Sparrows were everywhere at Bald Eagle State Park yesterday. The boat marina and the new lodge both had flocks of at least fifteen … Read More
Grasshopper Sparrow abundances
eBird has just started releasing some really neat animations of the abundances of birds throughout the year. They have been giving some supercomputer processor time … Read More
Injured Vesper Sparrow
This afternoon, while hawk watching at the Dunning’s Mtn site in Bedford County, I spotted a Vesper Sparrow foraging along the roadside. Last weekend we … Read More