The purpose of the club is to promote bird watching among its members and with the general public and to encourage environmental conservation. The club meets every month on the 2nd Thursday of the month at the Visitor Center at Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge. The meetings start at 7:00 p.m. and include a program about bird watching or another nature topic.
Each month the club hosts one or two fieldtrips. The fieldtrips take us to many areas around the state or into eastern Oregon. Depending on the season, you can be assured to see wintering, migratory, or resident birds.
Visitors are always welcome at the meetings and fieldtrips.
SIBA Members only: If you are a current member of Southwestern Idaho Birders Association, please log in to access 'member only' pages. If you have never logged in to the 'member only' pages, please click 'create account' and a user name and password will be emailed to you. After you have logged in, click on "my account" to change your password.
CANYON HILL CEMETERY, CALDWELL
The many conifer trees at the cemetery make this a great site for wintering mountain birds and roosting owls. Birds commonly found include kestrels, American robins, Townsend’s solitaires, downy woodpeckers, northern flickers, ruby-crowned kinglets, black-capped chickadees, red-breasted nuthatches, dark-eyed juncos and American goldfinches. Uncommon are sharp-shinned hawks, cedar waxwings, brown creepers, mountain chickadees, pine siskins and red crossbills. Great horned and western screech owls roost in the trees but are very hard to find. At the back of the cemetery, look for waterfowl, bald eagles and herons along the Boise River. The cemetery is located at the northern end of Illinois Ave., at the northern edge of the city of Caldwell. The cemetery road gates open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m., but pedestrian entry are permitted at any daytime hour.
In 2009, White-winged and Red Crossbills were found feeding on the seeds of the spruce cones, life birds for many fieldtrip participants. The fieldtrip will be held on Saturday, January 16th. Meet at the cemetery at 9:00 a.m.
If you have any questions about the fieldtrip, please call Jim Holcomb at 466-6030 or click on the Fieldtrips and Events Calendar link.