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Today I went birding with my mom and found a male and female Owl pair! Of course the female had to stay behind branches, but the male flew out to make for a nice shot: Then we found a large flock of Cedar Waxwings which posed nicely for us. Overall, it was a beautiful day with an incredible new foot of snow on the ground!
I've just uploaded some more pictures from 2016! Barrow's Goldeneye: Ring-necked Duck: A leucistic Common Merganser: Sandhill Cranes: Baby California Quail, so cute! A Swainson's Hawk from the Birds of Prey Flight show in Boise: A Great Horned Owl in sunset: A Black-billed Magpie at my peanut feeder: A Yellow-rumped Warbler in a Russian Olive tree: An adorable juvenile Mountain Bluebird: Bullock's Oriole: The Snake River Canyon: A few of my favorite mammal pictures:
I've been going through lots of my old photos and I've dug up a bunch of my nice photos from summer of 2016! Here's some Spotted Sandpipers: A female Hairy Woodpecker: An Eastern Kingbird, a yardbird! A White-crowned Sparrow picture I'm particularly proud of: A horrifying amount of bugs: Stanley Lake: A few frogs and toads: I hope you liked these! It's like Christmas for me opening up folders full of old pictures.
Well, 2017 is finally here! Now that all the New Years festivities are over, I have had the chance to go birding. Too bad if it's 16 degrees outside, I'll just bundle up more! But I sure am glad I spent the hour to bird my local neighborhood. First of all I found a very photogenic Kestrel who let me get very close to him: Afterwards, I was surprised by a Great Horned Owl flying from a tree directly in front of me! In hope of seeing another one, I climbed the tree (which was hard considering there was 2 ft of snow on it). To my surprise, there was another one! A fairly small male. It was so hard to get clear pictures because of all the branches everywhere, but here's my best: As I was attempting to get pictures of the owl, I spotted a small bird rustling around below me. It turned out to be a Hermit Thrush! I snapped a quick picture: It turns out this bird was a rarity! This bird normally only shows up during migration, but in the dead of winter it is certainly very odd to find one. Here is my eBird checklist:
ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S33514806 |
Youtube:The first Kestrel chick fed!
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