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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 3335630" data-attributes="member: 14799">Glad you enjoyed my comments.  Every place on earth possesses its own uniqueness.  I've had friends who have visited the Great Barrier Reef, and they describe its features using superlatives. Montana just broke a million residents.  So with this much land mass, there is plenty of space to roam around.  The diversity of bird life, even in the winter here in Montana is significant.  A local rancher put in 80 acres of barley hay this past summer.  When he begins feeding it to his cows, the mallards come in by the thousands.  Quite a spectacle.Yesterday, over 50 Canadian honkers were resting in a hayfield, all in a straight line, with bodies half under the snow. They actually use the snow as a form of insulation.  Very hardy birds.  They used to fly south but now spend most of their time in the Smith River valley.john</blockquote>