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…
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 really wasn’t sure I’d ever end up doing a Turkey Vulture (TV in birding shorthand) profile, and not because…
I had a very interesting and productive trip to the River S Unit of the Ridgefield NWR last Friday. Even…
Western Tanagers are always an exciting bird to see, flashing that bright red head and yellow body, with the black…
For anyone curious about my prolonged vacation from writing these profiles, I talk about it in this blog “Refocusing in…