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This was a good month. Lots of species in the valley and a few good day trips. The spring migration is off to a good start!

I took Friday off to prepare for a weekend of guests coming over for dinner. This weekend is my dear, sweet wife’s birthday and we had guests coming in from out of town and out of state that we have not seen since before the pandemic. Then there is the family obligation. I knew that…

We made 20 positive ID’s in April. Not as many as I had hoped, but a decent month, nevertheless. Red-breasted Merganser Tree Swallow Lesser Scaup Ruby Crowned Kinglet Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Eared Grebe Ross’s Goose Common Loon Marsh Wren Wilson’s Snipe Greater Yellowlegs Savannah Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Long-billed Curlew Vesper Sparrow Red-necked Grebe…

Today I woke up and took the Lab for a walk- nothing too unusual about that. But, I had 27 species ID’ed before 8:30am, and that made me think about the upcoming week. Work is getting busy; board meeting; landscaping projects at home; and this is my birthday week. So, I know that I will…

I posted these images to the FindYourselfInNature Instagram feed yesterday. Overnight I heard from a follower that the same flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris, is in danger of disappearing in the UK. We have a vertiable carpet of them for a few weeks in April and I just was not prepared to learn that, as the WildlifeTrusts.org…

The days are getting luxurioulsy long. It is staying light until a bit past 8pm. That means that i can get the Lab out for an early evening walk that benefits the both of us. He gets to get some exercise before bed, I and I get the excercise and a bit of birding in.…

We made positive ID’s on 44 species in March 2022. In addition to bringing our year to more than 100 species, we also made 7 new Life Bird ID’s. Life birds are marked with an asterisk. We are off to a very strong year. Downy Woodpecker Mar-3-22 Bray Belted Kingfisher Mar-5-22 Prickly Pear FAS Pileated…

Friday morning dawned cool and overcast. So, I walked Obi for a just a bit locally and hit the road. As I came around the bend in the road and caught my first glimpse of the lake, I was disappointed not to see any white geese or swans on the water. The reports from Freezeout…

We made positive ID’s on only 5 species in January 2022. It was cold and windy- alot. So getting out in the good birding areas was a bit more challenging that ususal, and we had a such a strong January, I think we had simply found most of what we were going to find when…

We made positive ID’s on 56 species in January 2022. Considering we typically hit about 200 species for the year, that’s a pretty good count. And a very nice start. Common RedpollBlack-billed MagpiePeregrine FalconMountain ChickadeeHouse FinchBlack-capped ChickadeeAmerican CrowBohemian WaxwingRock PigeonCommon MerganserCanada GooseMallardWood duckCommon RavenRing-necked DuckNorthern FlickerRough-legged hawkBald EagleRed-tailed HawkEurasian Collared DoveMourning DoveAmerican Tree SparrowGreat Horned…