If you’re looking for orioles in Idaho you will only find one kind. That is the Bullock’s oriole. He is about 7” long, has a yellow and orange chest with black wings, a black cap and chin strap along with a stripe along the eye. He is a bird of the riparian areas, creeks, streams and rivers as well as the brush. Good places to locate him here in Idaho would include Silver Creek Preserve, along the Boise Greenbelt and the creeks of the Owyhees...

At the end of August I went up into the mountains for a family vacation, we went to a small cabin out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but sagebrush blooming.  Around the cabin there were four hummingbird feeders hanging up that were just full of hummingbirds.  I could not figure out what would attract them and sustain them out in the desert with little to no flowers blooming, so I had to do a little research.  It turns out hummingbirds eat insects as well as nectar to get a complete diet...

If you feed them, they will come. For the most part, when it comes to wild birds, this is true. There are however some things that you can do to increase the chance of getting a large variety of aviary friends to visit your back yard and feed more frequently...

The number one thing most often neglected by back yard birders is not providing water. All year round birds will flock to the yards that provide fresh clean water. In spring and summer they need the water but water is also vital in grooming and preening flight feathers. Every yard needs a bird bath.