I really love Chestnut-backed Chickadees! As a bird that is endemic to the region I have chosen to call home…
Who doesn’t love mourning doves, with their subtle beauty, melancholy call, distinctive silhouette, and seemingly gentle ways? I’ve wanted to…
Since I did not kill, skin, and examine the skull and teeth of any of the little chipmunks I saw…
I was strolling along the Lacamas Creek Trail in Camas, Washington last week, happily photographing spring wildflowers, when I noticed…
When I moved to Vancouver, Washington in the late 70s I occasionally went smelt ‘dipping’ with a high school friend…
This past weekend Pam and I took our regular late winter field trip to the central Columbia River Gorge. The…
It has been a busy couple weeks for yours truly! In addition to the holiday festivities, my nbo Morgan recently…
Black Turnstones are fun birds to watch, with their darting ways and debris flipping, hammering at barnacles and prying off…
I am always excited to find any of the woodpeckers (including flickers and sapsuckers) and Picadae is probably my favorite…
I had no idea until I started researching this that they had revised the taxonomy and nomenclature of toads (in fact…