Monday, February 17, 2025
10.0°F
Mark Launder looks through a spotting scope across Mica Bay to see a widgeon and a grebe among the usual suspects Tuesday morning.

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Deep croaks were heard as a raven soared south near a turnout on Mica Creek, then circled around to fly north. It was the first bird of the day for those on the Coeur d'Alene Audubon's January Mica Bay Survey, and the first eBird of the year for one participant keeping track on his Cornell Lab phone app. "He flies like he's rowing a boat," Coeur d'Alene Audubon President Ted Smith observed Tuesday morning as the large black corvid sailed overhead.