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Here are a couple of summer residents we ran across the other day while checking out a fishing spot for the opening day of trout season Saturday. Looks as though they are pretty well settled in now.

They picked a safe and very pleasant place to raise their family this year.

Mother nature even did a little [...]

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The members of the plant world aren’t the only ones displaying new blossoms this time of year. Here are a pair of proud parents parading with their new spring “buds” too.

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Sure is nice to see these little guys back again for the summer! This is a pair of Western Bluebirds who seem to be settling into one of the houses I set up last summer. It is all cleaned up and ready for them.
I saw the little lady enter the house several times while the [...]

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Spring is still two months away in the high country,

but in our valley, its first heralds showed up today.

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Swans

Along a lonely stretch of the lower Flathead river yesterday as we returned from a trip to the city we could see these swans on the river. It is the only place around here where I can recall ever seeing swans, and not too often there. They were very wild and I was unable to [...]

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“You go first!”

(It was -9ยบ F this morning.)

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Years ago my wife and I were completely captivated by the song of a small bird, and it took us over a year to identify the singer. We were familiar with the call of the Black-capped Chickadee, but didn’t realize they also had a haunting little song, completely different from their call.
I have grown to [...]

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It was a rare pleasure to see this little guy the other day because I haven’t seen one for many years. I know they are plentiful north of here all of the way to Alaska, but fairly scarce around here. I was surprised to see him at an elevation of around 6,000 feet, which is [...]

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