Enter Veteran’s Park off the Parkway. Turn right as soon as you enter and park by the dumpster there. Go straight down the concrete path and turn toward the river. You will cross a small canal and see two bridges, a green one to your left and a bigger brown one to your right. Go to the brown bridge and start looking for the large mixed feeding flock, BCCH, BRCR, SOSP, RCKI, DOWO. At least, as of yesterday, the flock was moving up and down the river in that riparian channel between the brown bridge and the Parkway bridge.

CGB. RL

On Mon, 11 Dec, 2023 at 11:14 AM, John Shortis via groups.io <john_shortis@…> wrote:

Boise River Greenbelt · Boise River Greenbelt, Boise, ID 83714

12° when got up at 6AM. Had warmed to 16° when started my AM walk to the river. Overcast, fog in distance & the snow making one of favorite sounds…whoomph-whoomph…with each boot step. Down along the river found groups of Trumpeter Swans bankside. A Bald Eagle perched up in an old cottonwood snag watching for trout in a deep pool. And, best bird of the AM, perched at the very tip top of the same eagle tree, was a Northern Shrike. 

Back at house, was just in time to watch the resident Sharp-shinned Hawk scatter the BC Chickadees, House Finches & DE Juncos from the feeder. The hawk missed this time, but last week found it at edge of backyard feasting on a hapless junco.

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot 

Most likely,   the part about catch and release.