He spent the better part of an hour giving us a tour including a few things that the public doesn't usually see.
This morning we went to the Peregrine Fund World Center for Birds of Prey. They open at 10:00 but the Director, Tate Mason, met us at 9:30 outside the front door.
He spent the better part of an hour giving us a tour including a few things that the public doesn't usually see.
They have a few birds that grew up around humans so they are used for lectures and demonstrations. The Peregrine Fund's main mission is to prevent species from dying out.
When the population gets sufficiently small, they bring most (or all) of the remaining birds to Boise and place them in huge buildings where they are fed and encouraged
to breed. These buildings allow the birds to be secured away from any human contact (including the feeding process).
They want to keep the noise down around the big building campus so this is what they use to mow the grass.
Currently they are concentrating on California Condors. Tate showed us a closed circuit image of the some of the adults and younger birds.
After our hour with Tate, we attended a lecture and demonstration where a very cute little kestrel flew about the lecture hall.
Today also had a lot of travel because we want to be close to Yellowstone to visit it tomorrow.
Our first stop was in Twin Falls where we charged the car and had lunch. The chargers are near a really neat bridge over
the snake river. 
At Twin Falls, the river is so far below the town that the bridge is a popular place for paragliders. I found a YouTube video of Paragliders jumping from the bridge. We saw a group of paragliders preparing to jump and we saw one of them jump.
In Pocatello, we saw a very man-made looking mountain of some gray rubble. With a bit of Googling, we discovered
that it is a mineral used for making phosphate fertilizer that is mined in the vicinity.
Finally, at the end of the day, we had put in 403.5 miles. Another day with a lot of driving. 