Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com Big mouths often cause trouble for the owner of that mouth. A young Swainson’s hawk left its perch on a fence post…
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Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com While watching twin young ospreys standing on a nest exercising their wings as they are getting ready to leave the nest, I…
An osprey harvests a kokanee on Ririe Reservoir. | Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com The osprey just could not help bragging about his catch after it had…
“Here comes a school of fish,” my grandson and fishing partner, Brandon, hollered at me as he hooked one. As he iced the 16-incher, I…
“Here comes a school of fish,” my grandson and fishing partner, Brandon, hollered at me as he hooked one. As he iced the 16-incher, I…
A pair of Northern harriers “sky-dancing” at Market Lake. | Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com It is amazing what a few days of warm sunny days will…
Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com The Idaho Department of Fish and Game recently announced the comment period for a proposed hunt on Camas National Wildlife Refuge. The…
Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com The blizzard was in full force at Beaver Dick Park west of Rexburg, but there was no wind and no clouds or…
Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com Hundreds of gray-crowned rosy finches flew from the roadside on the Rexburg Bench and landed in a patch of weeds where they…
Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com Almost before cold-footers could start dreaming about fishing through the ice, Henrys Lake froze over. The minus 15-degree temperature last Sunday night…