Touring ID

Last week I was on our second week of new employee training. This week we toured SE ID. We started in Idaho Falls, then Pocatello, and then Sun Valley. It was a fun trip, better than the first week in Boise which covered more of the boring day lectures than field trips. This time we all awoke at 4 am on Wed morning for a little birding trip! Yeah. Much better than the fish hatchery tours...uhm boring! Fish are so not wildlife :)

This is the area we traveled to, to see sharp-tailed grouse and sage grouse leks. Beautiful SE ID. I soo miss the sagebrush.

Here we all are at 6am looking for grouse...which we didn't see much of seeing as we had 40 people and 10 vehicles!

We did see a bunch of waterfowl and a few other species. Here is a yellow-headed blackbird. If you have ever heard one, they totally sound like R2D2 from Star Wars.

On our way to Sun Valley our truck stopped to site see. A few were new to Idaho so site seeing was on the agenda. This is register rock, a stop on the Oregon Trail where pioneers stopped and signed there names on the rock cliffs in the mid- to late 1800s.

This is Shoshone Falls near Twin Falls. Taller than Niagra Falls actually. But doesn't look like it.

On our drive back to N ID, we stopped near Salmon and took a hike in the mountains. I had my dogs with me the entire trip so they were ecstatic to get out of their crates for once. Loved it!

That's all for now folks.