My first northern pygmy-owl sighting, on the border of a wooded property near Columbia Falls on Saturday, Jan. 18. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) I’ve been searching for a northern pygmy-owl for the ...

Wildlife enthusiasts have been gathering in southern Utah to spot a rare bird of prey, not with their eyes, but with lenses that can see what the eye can’t see. In recent days, a couple of northern ...

A hummingbird alerted me. It darted about very erratically rather than the smooth flying while taking nectar from flowers. And it wasn’t darting around flowers but zig-zagging around like a fly over ...