super exciting lifer today... a Red-throated Loon!

watched him eat a rodent!

saw a handsome barred owl on campus today. glad i had my binoculars with me 😛

yummers

one final tomorrow and then im officially finished with my first semester of grad school 🥳🥳🥳

oscines!

juvenile Barred Owl

juvenile Barred Owl

juvenile Barred Owl

honorable mentions: small flock of Red Crossbills, a vagrant Bohemian Waxwing, so many beautiful Mountain Bluebirds and Evening Grosbeaks, a juvenile Short-eared Owl, and some baby Barred Owls from my parents' backyard

Dusky Grouse, fledgling American Dipper, juvenile NSWO, Virginia Rail

I'm working on finding them all! Ledges is nice!

okay maybe just south of my hometown. close enough!

my hometown bird!

mentally preparing for my first field season in Iowa after two summers in western Montana