Craters of the Moon
The Idaho team met the evening of the 25th for two days of sagebrush briefing.
At this point, I would pay good money to talk to anybody about anything besides birds.
We had a Short-eared Owl. When seen from far below they look like huge light-colored birds with dark wrists.
Bluebirds and Rock Wrens like the lava.
We're not exactly high on veg here, but it's amazing that anything can grow in the lava.
COM is over 6,000 feet and a few of us got altitude sickness (not me).
We went neighborhood birding in Carey, Idaho.
Nothing creepier than a bunch of hippies with binoculars walking around rural Idaho.
We found a Bank Swallow colony in a gravel yard.
Unable to stop counting and identifying things, we counted Memorial Day RVs. The rule is to put the word "anal" before the name of the RV.