Saw my first pair of Wood Ducks for the season flyby along the Snake River this AM. Otherwise, a very quiet winter, bird wise.
Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Bird
Merlin said of first location canyon county whitetail hawk second one Owyhee county merlin just by size way off so much for merlin ID
Re: Red Wingss
We have several colonies at 2 of the parks I bike through. They only started singing in the last few weeks.
Tom
Tom
Red Wingss
Red Winged Blackbird showed up today, likely a single, harbinger of Spring.
Glad my wife just got an extra bag of sunflower seeds.
Bill Moore
Hoot Owl Rd
Inkom
Short eared owls
Sean Pursley found short-eared owls on Big Foot Road south of Nampa. There are 3 owls and they were seen near the compost piles.
Denise Hughes
Re: Barrow’s goldeneye, Optimus Park, Boise
I see them several times a week at the bridge by the old race track (which is totally being plowed into submission—can’t get down
Remington St. anymore).
Tom
Re: Barrow’s goldeneye, Optimus Park, Boise
I was intrigued to come across a pair yesterday on the Boise River 100 yards west of the Garden City Library. Seems unlikely it was the same pair from the day before but I savored the thought.
Kevin Merrell
Re: Barrow’s goldeneye, Optimus Park, Boise
Just FYI there are quite a few on the Boise River from the Diversion Dam downstream to the Broadway Bridge where I have seen and photographed them and I also have seen them reported further downstream also.
They have become regulars over the last few years and I see them every winter.
On Feb 11, 2025, at 8:08 AM, Karl Kosciuch via groups.io <kosciuch@…> wrote:
I’ve typically seen them on larger bodies of water and rarely just 2. It was still there as of 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Ken Miracle
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
chukar28@…
208-570-2780
“Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” 2COR 3:5
Re: Barrow’s goldeneye, Optimus Park, Boise
In the 70s they were regularly on the Council, ID, sewer ponds in winter.
Dean Jones
“A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.” Thomas Huxley
208-859-0072
Re: Barrow’s goldeneye, Optimus Park, Boise
I’ve typically seen them on larger bodies of water and rarely just 2. It was still there as of 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning.