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| Smoke shrouded mountains all around Livingston |
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| Pinion Jay flock attack peanuts |
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| Pinion Jays - dawn visitors |
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| Pinion Jay Fledgling food begging |
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| House Finch |
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| Golden Eagle walking the balance beam for gold medal |
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| Another Golden Eagle |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
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| American Kestrel scolding |
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| Mountain Chickadee fledgling |
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| Evening Grosbeak eating wild chokecherry |
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| Oh what a mess, time to clean bill. |
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| Fawns are growing fast |
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| Tail end of our Montana visit. We will miss family until next year. |
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| We left Livingston and headed through West Yellowstone into Idaho. |
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| Yellowstone elk, cows and calves |
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| Swainson's Hawk, one of 25 that were feeding on insects in a freshly cut grain field. |
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| Arrived at Craters of the Moon National Monument and were welcomed to our campsite by this Antelope Ground Squirrel |
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| Rugged Volcanic landscape and large cinder cones |
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| Dwarf Buckwheat takes root on volcanic ash |
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| Limberpine Cones |
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| Clark's Nutcrackers constantly flying overhead |
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| Nutcracker feeds primarily on pine nuts |
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| Volcanic cinders |
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| Forest fire smoke enhances the sunrise |
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| Two Fox Kits scamper across the lava beds |
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| Fox Kit number one stops to study us |
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| Fos Kit number two sneaks a peek |
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| Red-shafted Flicker checks out cavity |
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| Giant Blazing-Star |
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| Lava flow into older crater |
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| Say's Phoebe watching for insects |
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| Volcanic cinders support abundant lichen growth |
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| Lava crust collapse reveals caves and lava tubes |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
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| As we left Idaho, we pasted around Bear Lake with it's turquoise blue waters. Love & Prayers, Ty and Ida Baumann |
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