Geese for Friday, Fish for Saturday

Had a great two days in the Great Outdoors.  With only about a week to enjoy the snow goose migration, Friday evening I went back out to Camas NWR to visit.  The snow geese were in and out with a large flock flying around.

By evening, the geese were all out in the fields feeding but a small group.  But they wer joined by a lot of both Tundra and Trumpeter swan and flocks of ducks.

Then Saturday morning I headed to Henrys Lake to check on the spawning activity (see my fishing blog).  The sun was beautiful coming up over the east and creating a golden glow with all the fog.  Here the glow colors the Henrys Fork by Ponds Lodge.

At Henrys Lake the fish filled the run entering the spawn house.  This is a promise for a great fishing season for this year.

More wild days in Idaho for a guy who loves wildness.

SkyWatch Friday - Sunset

The prevailing wind bends the grass heads from south to north.  They become almost petrified by the winter snows with only the strong ones still standing as the snow receeds in the spring.

Look out from above!!!!  Thousands of snow geese invade Camas National Wildlive Refuge bringing with them enough "fertilizer" to green up the marshes.

                                     

Just another wild day in Idaho.

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Snowgoose invasion

I just got back from Camas National Wildlife Refuge and it has been invaded by Snow and Ross's geese.  Here they are dropping onto the Big Pond.

As the sun set, they moved out to the fields to feed.

A great way to end another wild day in Idaho.

I'm Back

After a week of traveling, a severe cold, a three-day conference, I will post a few of the pictures I lucked into. 

Here are two flickers of a group of 18 fight over some rotten apples under an old apple tree.

Here is a mostly red-shafted Northern Flicker with some yellow-shafted feathers in its tail and it also had four in the left wing.

I was also able to visit the group of Long-eared owls and found three pairs of the 12 still there and setting up home by working on nests.  We will see what happens.

They were also a little more available for roosting pictures.

Just some more wild days in Idaho.