super exciting lifer today... a Red-throated Loon!

saw a handsome barred owl on campus today. glad i had my binoculars with me 😛

honorable mentions: small flock of Red Crossbills, a vagrant Bohemian Waxwing, so many beautiful Mountain Bluebirds and Evening Grosbeaks, a juvenile Short-eared Owl, and some baby Barred Owls from my parents' backyard

Dusky Grouse, fledgling American Dipper, juvenile NSWO, Virginia Rail

mentally preparing for my first field season in Iowa after two summers in western Montana