Baker's Life List

Greater White-fronted Goose (in the background)

Here's our "Life List" as of today, 10/8/13.  I'd love to push it over 300.  Maybe this fall during migration.

 We went up to British Columbia for a short trip this weekend, and went to the Creston Wildlife Management Area. The best bird we saw there was the Greater White Fronted Goose.  Actually, we saw hundreds of them!  Creston WMA has the greatest concentration of migrating Greater White Fronted Goose in all of Brittish Columbia.

Hairy Woodpecker

Even though it's only 100 miles away from here, the Greater White Fronted Goose does not stop here in North Idaho on it's migration south for the winter (or on it's migration north in the spring).  We didn't get close enough to get a good photo, but we did get close enough to see their orange feet and legs!
Another thing we noticed was the craxy way the flocks come in for a landing.  They glide in and then flip sideways and drop lower, then flip sideways again.  It was very cool!

Anyway, here's the list as of today.

Red-winged Blackbird

Students who want extra credit, choose one of these species to research and write an informative report about (min. five paragraphs), for 20 points extra credit.  Click on the link below to see the list.

Baker's Life List

Beaver Chews

Hairy Woodpecker