Camas Prairie

Camas County is a bit east of Boise.  We went over there a couple of weeks ago looking for the blue camas explosion.  Parts of it are more of a marsh:

What we found were sandhill cranes:

and yellow-headed blackbirds:

Here's a better picture:

And here are the camas flowers we went to find.  We're told that early settlers would see these at a distance, and mistake them for open water: