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Boise Trip : October 9 - 14, 2019

Part 2 - Boise area

October 11: Peregrine Fund World Center for Birds of Prey, Boise, ID

The Fall Flights program was one of a kind!

Ornate Hawk-Eagle

Erin and Winston

Steve and Schmidt

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2nd year with a few juvenile feathers left.

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California Condor

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"Oliver" - Verreaux's Eagle-owl

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"Griffin" - Swainson's Hawk

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"Finn" - Red-tailed Hawk

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"Rosa" - Aplomado Falcon

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"Cody" - Harris' Hawk

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"Makeda" - Lanner Falcon

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Idaho State Capitol

October 12: Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

I watched some bird banding activities at the Intermountain Bird Observatory on the Boise River before heading into the NCA.

Weighing

Banding

Measuring wing

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Release

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Baby rattlesnake

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Rock Wren

Sulphur butterfly (Colias sp.)

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Prairie Falcon

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Northern Harrier

Common Raven

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Sharp-shinned Hawk (?)

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Rock Pigeons

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Western Pygmy Blue

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Swan Falls Dam

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Becker's White (Pontia beckerii)

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Large White Skipper (Heliopetes ericetorum)

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Red-winged Blackbird (female)

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Playing with an ND filter

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Northern Flicker

Mourning Dove

October 13: Blacks Creek Bird Reserve


Hunters and decoys

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

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Pronghorn

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Double-crested Cormorants

October 13: Baskett Slough NWR


Northern Pintail (?)

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Greater Yellowlegs (?)

Mallards

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American Kestrel

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Eating an insect

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October 14: Ankeny NWR


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Dunlin

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Dark-eyed Junco

Bewick's Wren (?)

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Marsh Wren

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Fall colors in Salem

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