White's Valley, etc.

[cldavis at xmission dot com]

Nicky and I went to White's Valley on Sunday.  We saw the gray partridge 
along with lots of harriers and a prairie falcon.  On into Snowville we saw 
a red-tailed hawk on every other pole (well, almost) and two beautiful 
ferruginous hawks.
About halfway to the Idaho border we decided to turn around and on a whim 
stopped at that great juniper-reststop with the signs informing visitors of 
the nesting area of the ferruginous hawks.  This was a great place for 
birds.  We saw gray-headed juncos, yellow-rumped warblers, and scrub jays, 
but the best find of all was a very noisy group of juniper titmice.  They 
were  a wonderful, crazy bunch! 
We traveled over 330 miles and had a blast.  One life bird for me 
(partridge) and three for Nicky (titmice, ferruginous hawk, and partridge). 
It's too bad all birding days can't be as beautiful as today.
Carol Davis

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