Bill Schiess

DUBOIS — My friend Steve and I decided to run out to Lone Pine and see if the pocket of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep were still there and active on Wednesday morning. On the way out, we ran into several large herds of prong-horn antelope and stopped long enough to photograph a few of them. […]

“Hey, I’ve got a Steller’s jay in my yard,” a friend called me on Monday last week. I hurried over, but it was gone by the time I got there. “He left our place and went over to the neighbors but didn’t stay there long either.” During the snowstorm on Tuesday, a pair of Steller’s […]

While driving along the marshy area west of Mud Lake this past week, I saw an old friend flying low across the bulrush and cattails. It was the first American bittern that I have seen in several years. I saw inland near a grass covered bank and stopped close to the area. It was not […]

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“Last Monday, we had about 500 mallards join the approximately 1500 trumpeter swans in the corn field,” Josh Rydalch, a Regional Wildlife biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told me on Thursday. “The swans are tall enough to get the ears off the standing corn and I guess the ducks will be …

EXTREME CAUTION NEEDS TO BE EXERCISED AT RIRIE AS THE WARM WEATHER AND THE RAIN THIS WEEK HAS CAUSED PRESSURE RIDGES TO DEVELOP AND THE ICE TO BREAK APART IN PLACES. IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! Ririe Reservoir froze over earlier than usual allowing some fishermen to begin ice fishing on December 22, four days earlier …

While watching Trumpeter swans and Mallard ducks feeding along the Texas Slough in the Burton area, west of Rexburg, two flashes of powder-blue caught my attention. The raucous rattling sound indicated a pair of belted kingfishers were chasing each other along warm seeps where minnows were trapped in pockets of water. The male had caught …

My line started circling the eight-inch hole in the ice that was about five inches thick, but the flimsy rod tip did not move. As I raised the rod, I felt a little resistance, so I set the hook into the heavy fish. There was not much fight out of it until I got it …

On Tuesday morning, we woke up to three inches of snow on the ground with more falling. It wasn’t long before the snow turned to rain and then it quit. But I could see it was still snowing in the mountains east of Rexburg. It was time to look for animals moving from the high …