I was under the truck bleeding the rear brakes when a shrill ki-ki-ki-ki broke the early evening stillness. The sound was close. I rolled from under the truck and looked to the nearest tree. The sound ...

On a fine, sunny day in February (yes, there were a few of those!), a friend and I decided to snowshoe on the Lower Loop at Eaglecrest. The snow was very deep, after those heavy snowfalls earlier, but ...

In this sixth part on the owls of Idaho, I’m getting down to species that I have seen much less often than those addressed in the first five parts. Next up for me is the northern saw-whet owl. I have ...

Fourteen species of owls have been seen in Idaho and 13of them are documented breeders. These include the barn owl, flammulated owl, western screech-owl, great horned owl, snowy owl, northern hawk owl ...