Feb
28
2009
Bill stained with blood and talons sunk deep into the formerly lively body of a ground squirrel, an impressive Bald Eagle stands atop his meal for today. Each spring, a bounty of eagles and hawks flood into the intermountain valleys of the Northern Rockies. After a winter that may have been spent with meager rations, …
Feb
26
2009
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs …
Feb
22
2009
This morning broke with brilliant sunshine and its accompanying warmth. Ice had formed in the melt-water puddles from yesterday, and the light and heat was beginning to return them to liquid. Along the cottonwoods and riparian scrub, Northern Flickers and Black-capped Chickadees were in full throat. how reassuring it was to hear the two-note song …
Feb
21
2009
This morning felt like the first day of spring. The sun was bright and warm, and the birds were very active. I went to the Triple Tree trail for a little birding hike with the Wunder-Mutt, Olivia. Right in the middle of this wealthy neighborhood, a herd of ~100 elk were bedding down and chewing …
Feb
20
2009
“I write messages on money.It’s my own form of social protest.A letter printed on paper that no one will destroypassed indiscriminately across race, class and gender linesand written in the blood that keeps the beast alive.A quiet little hijackingon the way to the check-out counterAnd a federal crime.I hope that someone will find my message …
Feb
20
2009
Last night, Sam and I went up into the Bridger Mountains in pursuit of Boreal and Great Gray Owls. Well, as luck would have it the wind was blowing hard enough to eliminate any possibilities of hearing any owl. We did, however, find a lone Long-eared Owl on a fence post along Brackett Creek. Did …
Feb
19
2009
I was just informed about this story about Worcester’s buttonquail was known only through illustrations based on decades-old museum specimens until a television crew documented the live bird in the market before it was sold in January, NationalGeographic.com reported. Scientists had suspected the bird, found only on the island of Luzon, to be extinct, according …
Feb
18
2009
We will cruise the backroads north and west of Bozeman and Belgrade, ending at Central Park Pond.
Feb
18
2009
We will be scouting and doing the 2009 Big Day…time to break (not tie) that blasted record!
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