Last week I drove out to Market Lake WMA for a short time but saw this mess. A farmer had discarded his twine from his hay that he had fed his cows and left it laying everywhere. It was all over the ground along with other garbage. A pair of ospreys had used the twine in building their nest and one of the chicks had become tangled in some of the twine and fell from the nest where it died.
So I am encouraging everyone who feeds livestock to dispose of the twine in a burn barrel and burn it so this does not happen. It was a waste of a beautiful bird.
Sorry the pictures are sideways, but don't know how to correct them.
I also met this wonderful marsh wren as it tried to visit me inside my blind.
Another day in the wilds of Idaho.
