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Bird Notes by John Parker March is here, that exciting time when each week of spring pulls new migrants to the north. For southwest Montana the iconic “first bird of

It was an interesting year for this area’s Christmas Bird Counts. Once again, due to the continuing Covid-19 situation there were still some limitations on post count gatherings and sharing

Early winter is a quiet time of year here in the interior of the continent, with most all of the migratory birds long gone. Most years, all of the ponds

This past fall’s migration was fairly uneventful in terms of local birders finding unusual passerines. The big exception was southwest Montana’s first Golden-crowned Sparrow that Dalton Spencer found foraging with