Andrews Forest Burns as Birdwatching Magazine Ends with Nina Ferrari’s Story
The article I wrote for Birdwatching on Nina Ferrari climbing towering trees and studying birds in the H.J. Andrews…
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Mistbow: In praise of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and Jerry Rudy
How is it that mist becomes an archway over Coos Bay? How is it that worries mist…
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Yucatán Return- Attending to Small Wonders
Within a tangled tropical garden, I am a gecko chirping, a great-tailed grackle swaggering, or perhaps a…
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birds | climate change | forests | Nature
What do Birds Ask of Us?
I’m holding a hermit warbler –my right hand cupped gently under the bird as my left forefinger…
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Lewis’s Woodpeckers –What Makes a Forest Whole
Lewis’s Woodpeckers are radiant and confounding members of the family Picidae. I’m spellbound by their enigmatic presence…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | poetry | Rivers
Calligraphy of the River Poet
As the temperatures rocketed into the 70s in Central Oregon after winter storms, I discover the “River…
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Pacific Wren: Virtuoso of Spring in the Ancient Forest
My ears are chiming with Pacific wren song long after I’ve left the “Old-Growth Trail” in McDonald…
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River Waltz
Deschutes River folds around an underwater rock to form a heart-shaped eddy. All splash. No waltz in…
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birds | climate change | Nature | poetry
Questions for Raven Watchers and other poems
Who is Raven? Trickster. Light bringer. Change maker. Storm flyer. Ravenous.
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Step Away, Step In – a 2022 Farewell
On this last day of 2022, I am lingering in the parting hours–leaning close to all I…
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