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this is the female of the resident pair who spent some time with her feather-care process. Throughout the time I was observing 3 Mourning Doves were perched in the same tree about 15 feet away from her, apparently without concern.

A burrowing owl along Lincoln Blvd, Idaho National Laboratory, Butte County, Idaho, where it merges with highway 33 at the north end. In this area, Agropyron cristatum is common along roadsides especially for green stripping. Here, this seemingly monodominant bunchgrass community is prone to immigration by native shrubs and forbs, including the shrubby to subshrubby winterfat, Krascheninnikovia lanata, and Gardner's saltbush, Atriplex gardneri.

Probably the same bird as in the previous observation. There was only one Snowy Egret in the waterway each of the two times we passed this area.
On both occasions the Snowy was foraging along with a Great Egret

note zip tie band on left leg. This is the male of a pair of Mandarin Ducks in pond. The female alone and the pair together are shown in the following two observations. Both flew to northeast at 9:45 am. UPDATE other birders inform that this pair arrived on their own about two months ago and that the ducks and geese in these two small park ponds are being fed