On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:32:40 -0700 (PDT), DaveS wrote:

On Apr 14, 5:13*pm, rw wrote:
I saw my first ever dove in Stanley, ID this afternoon -- probably a
lost migrant. We're crazy with birds this time of year as they migrate
through to their northern breeding grounds. So far today: Oregon juncos,
rufus sided towhees, flickers, robins, Canada geese, a sandhill crane,
an osprey, a Swainson's hawk, two golden eagles (yesterday), and
miscellaneous trash birds like starlings, which are actually quite
beautiful seen close up outside my bedroom window under the feeder --
iridescent plumage.

The most irritating birds I've encountered are the barn owls that nest
in the palm trees across the street from my house in California. They
don't call them screech owls for nothing. Screetch, screetch, screetch,
continuously, even through the night. When their young fledge birders
from all around northern California show up to watch them leave the nest.

We're coming out of winter and the place is coming alive. I went crust
skiing this morning, just outside of town. The 1/2 inch of fresh snow
was cris-crossed with fox prints, punctuated by holes in the snow where
they'd dug up mice.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Is that Sandhill normal in Stanley?

No. Like most things, it turns metrosexual and thinks its Hemingway the second
it hits the city limits...

HTH,
R

Dave