Sun Valley

I spent the last two or three days with a colleague. We drove from Boise, Idaho to Hailey. In Hailey, we stayed with friends, played Dictionary, and enjoyed the company of our gracious hosts, their niece and nephew from New Mexico and some very fine dogs, Wiley and Charlie.

After a night at the house in Hailey, we explored, via my car, roads to ride for a future bike trip. I'll think of it as training for my research adventures. 

Beavers can really change the landscape from a typical riverbed in an arid canyon into a lush marsh. The above marsh is popular with moose. 

This is where the road ended for us. If we were on bicycles we could have continued.

Birds: Long-billed curlew, Red-naped sapsucker, Stellar's jay, Black-capped chickadee, Western Taneger, Bullock's oriel, Dark-eyed junco, Black-headed gross-beak, House finch, Pine siskin, Swainson's hawk, American kestrel, Red-tailed hawk, Mallard, Yellow warbler, Yellow-rumped warbler, Violet-green swallow, Red-winged blackbird, Brewer's blackbird, Calliope hummingbird.