Bird Notes

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

The weather during the beginning of this fall’s migration has been quite mild with only one major front passing through the region. Without much active weather, the passage of southbound

This summer there were a number of exciting birds found in this area, ranging from large waders to warblers. Two of the most interesting are birds that breed in Montana,

As hoped, early March was mild after February’s onslaught of snow and cold. The clearing skies and warmer weather across the intermountain west, was just the signal that the bluebirds