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Spent the day walking on the beach. Nice day all around. We watched a Grey Whale swim around in front of our house for about an hour. Then a harbor seal showed up and watched the whale and us! It was a minus tide, so later we walked way out near where the whale was…

What a nice day! First full day in Brookings, Oregon. We took the morning and went for a hike in Alfred Loeb Park- the Northern most Redwood grove in the country. These are not huge trees like those found in California, but they were pretty amazing. We did a nice little loop trail that was…

The Holiday break was a good one. We took a quick trip to Great Falls in hope of seeing a Yellow Billed Loon that had been hanging out near Giant Springs State Park. We knew we had a very short window of opportunity as there had been a decent amount of snow already and a…

The morning pre-work walk started out rather dull. A few Rock Pigeons and the typical dozen or so Magpies were the extent of the observable birds. The midway point was better- an adult Northern Shrike allowed me to get within 30 feet or so. By the end of the walk, I was adjacent to the…

Today, I took the long way home, so to speak. Obi and I headed out at about 7:30am and we got back home about 11am. The Reservoir was simply alive with birds. Geese, Coots, Hooded Mergansers, Golden Eye’s, Buffleheads, two species of Grebe- Western and something a bit smaller with a white neck, at least…

Not everyone has access to so much recreational landscape. YNP one day (sleep in your own bed). Missouri River float day the next (sleep in your own bed again). But we do- it’s almost sad how many people save their money all year long to come out here and spend a week or two doing…

One of the beautiful things about living in Montana is the proximity to amazing public lands. Yellowstone, the worlds first national park, is so close to us that we can reasonably make it a day trip. So we did. We left home at 6:51am and arrived back home at 10:10pm. We saw 35+ species of…

This morning started a bit later than usual. The valley is completely filled with smoke and the Scratchgravels are just gray hills with nothing behind them except gauzy bluish haze. We started at the 10 Mile Creek Trail and saw a lot of Eastern Kingbirds, a couple of unidentifiable Flycatchers, a Belted Kingfisher, Spotted Sandpiper,…

We took a quick hike with MPC, Bella and Obi today. It was up in the Elkhorns south of Montana City. We came across two long abandoned and nearly decayed homesteads. We found a few pot sherds- one was a crock-bottle handle.  We also saw our first American Three-toed Woodpecker of the year. Nice hike!…

Today we took a quick road trip. We left the house before 7am. Three of us plus the Labrador went to both Freezeout and Benton Lakes. What a day! Nearly 70 species, including 6 new species for the year. Black Terns, Common Terns, Long-billed Dowitcher, Marbled Godwit, American Bittern, and Pied-Billed Grebe. Then add all…