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Winter
Wintering Trumpeter Swans
Where: Harriman State Park
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Bonus : great cross-country skiing or snowshoeing

Wintering deer and elk herds
Where: Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway–South Fork of the Payette River between Garden Valley and Lowman
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Birding on snowshoe or cross country skis
Where: Silver Creek Preserve
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Bonus : 1) End your trip with hot cocoa at the Hemingway monument or visitors center or 2) wildlife watch by canoe— quiet and eerie, but full of life—moose, elk, waterfowl.

Spring
Dancing Sage Grouse
When : Mid-late April during Dubois Grouse Days
Where: The Nature Conservancy’s Crooked Creek Ranch blinds allow limited numbers of photographers to get up close to the sage grouse leks.
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Thousands of migrating birds—literally thousands of snow geese for a start
When: March
Where: Market Lake Wildlife Management Area
Detai ls from the Idaho Bi rding Trail: Market Lake is a spring staging area for 50,000-150,000 ducks (particularly Northern Pintail), 400 Canada Geese, 40,000 Snow Geese, 1,000 Tundra Swans, and 150 shorebirds (Red-necked Phalarope, Black-bellied and American Golden-Plovers).
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Spawning steelhead
When : March and April
Where: Along the Upper Salmon River and its tributaries. Here, steelhead still make their thousand-mile surge from mountain stream spawning grounds to the ocean and home again.
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