Yesterday, I had the chance to visit a well - known nesting site of Black Swifts in northern Idaho on my way back from another trip.  Blac...

On Saturday I led a trip for the Bridgerland Audubon Society to the west desert of Box Elder County, Utah.  Our main goal was to visit some...

A Dusky Grouse x Sharp-tailed Grouse hybrid, photographed by the author in northern Utah on 7 Apr 2013. I love hybrids.  Some birders c...

In much of the inland western United States and Canada, there are two common breeding white-headed gull species, the California Gull and the...

Sage Sparrow, California Sage Sparrow, or Great Basin Sage Sparrow?   Photographed by Jamie Chavez in Santa Barbara County, California, an...

Andy Kleinhesselink listens for owls in Green Canyon for the 2012 Christmas Bird Count. Tonight we had a great field trip up Green Can...

This Rough-legged Hawk was photographed along our route earlier in January. On January 26, the Bridgerland Audubon Society field trip fo...

This Common Redpoll, which I photographed on Nov 8, 2012 in Steel Canyon, Cache Co., was among the first of the irruption, a sign of thi...

Now that a few days have passed since the end of the year and most or all of the pending reports have been reviewed, it is time to calculate...

On Saturday I led a field trip for the Bridgerland Audubon Society, focused on "Naked Birding," that is, birding without the use o...