Clark County

Northern Flicker Letting The Chips Fall Where They May

By |2024-03-04T12:52:09-06:00May 5th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Northern Flickers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I could hear the Northern Flicker excavating inside the nesting cavity and when he would stop he would appear with a bill full of shavings and forcefully eject them from the cavity.

Black and Blue All Over With Just a Splash of Red

By |2024-03-28T19:20:19-05:00May 4th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Mountain Bluebirds, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Well, it was another fun morning at the Magical Sapsucker Tree and today the cast was joined by a pair of Mountain Bluebirds who seem dead set on taking over the Northern Flicker cavity.

At the Magical Sapsucker Tree Once Again

By |2021-04-27T16:19:42-05:00May 3rd, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Mountain Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Targhee National Forest, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday may have started off dreary but it sure got lively with a Willamson's Sapsucker, Mountain Chickadee and a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatches at the Magical Sapsucker Tree!

Western Tanager in the Targhee National Forest

By |2021-05-29T05:47:03-05:00March 4th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Targhee National Forest, Western Tanagers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The bright yellow and red of this male Western Tanager caught my eye last May while on a dirt road in the Targhee National Forest in Idaho just south of the Montana state line.

I’m a real sucker for birds

By |2021-04-11T13:38:49-05:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Targhee National Forest, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I will photograph birds big and small, those that are flashy and those that are dull. From rare to common it doesn't matter to me.

Raising my glass to 2015!

By |2024-03-03T07:06:51-06:00January 1st, 2015|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Beaverhead County, Birds, Black-billed Magpies, Centennial Valley, Clark County, Davis County, House Wrens, Idaho, Montana, Moose, Swainson's Hawks, Targhee National Forest, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Raising the glass attached to my camera that is! I'm excited about the photographic opportunities that will present themselves in 2015.

Red-naped Sapsuckers of Clark County, Idaho

By |2024-03-24T03:22:12-05:00July 6th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It was a Sapsuckery trip to Montana and Idaho last week, with Red-naped and Williamson's Sapsuckers at their nesting cavities

The Magical Sapsucker Tree in Clark County, Idaho

By |2024-03-25T05:57:30-05:00July 4th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest, Tree Swallows, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A month ago I photographed a pair of Williamson's Sapsuckers excavating a nesting cavity in Idaho and this past week I spent several days photographing them again.

House Wrens – Nesting Behavior

By |2024-02-26T06:15:06-06:00June 4th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Targhee National Forest|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

For a few days now I said I was going to do a post about the House Wrens I photographed at the same nesting tree as the Williamson's Sapsuckers, here it is.

Wonderful Lifers – Williamson’s Sapsuckers at their nesting tree

By |2023-11-02T07:16:43-05:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I could barely contain myself because in my viewfinder was a gorgeous red, yellow and black colored male Williamson's Sapsucker.

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