For anyone curious about my prolonged vacation from writing these profiles, I talk about it in this blog “Refocusing in…
A dozen or so years ago, when I was a beginning birder, I really struggled with identifying the sparrows (and…
I am very fond of Gadwalls for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is their ease of…
When I asked my wife if she’d like to visit the area on the Cape Horn trail where we got…
Though they are presently the only species in the genus Passerculus, there are many different kinds of Savannah Sparrows! Depending on which…
Western Fence Lizards are, by far, the lizard species I most frequently encounter. Although those encounters mostly consist of a…
Let me start out by saying that Golden-crowned Sparrows are my favorite sparrows. I do most of my birding during…
At least once a year in late winter, preferably on a rainy night after a cold spell, my friend Craig…
Early this winter I heard that folks were seeing a Mountain Goat in the Columbia River Gorge. I had heard…
Between the fact that they are our only routinely diurnal salamander, and their frequent visibility in the shallow waters of…