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…
Back in July when I made a trip to Mt. St. Helens National Monument in Skamania County, Washington, I spotted…
There is a lot to say about these large members of the weasel family (Mustelidae), but first I’d like to…
I really wasn’t sure I’d ever end up doing a Turkey Vulture (TV in birding shorthand) profile, and not because…
I have to admit that, because they are often nocturnal and shy, I know very little about the small mammals…