birds | forests | Nature | trees | Wilderness
Wisdom of Ancient Western Junipers
“What would the Juniper hairstreak butterfly do without the tree that bears its name? How about the…
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backyards | birds | conservation | forests | Nature
A Carousel of Pygmy Nuthatches
Yesterday, I counted 13 Pygmy Nuthatches on one caged suet block–sending the feeder spinning like a carousel….
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Friendship Like Feathers: November poems
As November comes to a close here in Bend, Oregon, I am settling into the shorter days,…
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birds | climate change | conservation | family | forests | kingfisher
A Kingfisher Runs Through It
“You can love completely without complete understanding.”—Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories When…
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activism | birds | conservation | kingfisher | Nature
Colliding into Glass
I’m lying on my back on the floor after running headfirst into a window and striking hard…
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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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