Beach – On the Edge of Life and Death
Late afternoon. Bastendorff Beach. Cape Arago. Few people. Low tide. Golden light. I walk and run and…
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A Crackle of Grackles
Back in Bend with three-feet of snow, and pine siskins grasping icicles before flitting to feeders, I’m…
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Kingfishers Nesting at Fossil Point
Evening sunlight melts like golden honey oozing from the Pacific horizon across Coos Bay to lap upon…
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Seal Pup Drama on Cape Arago
The pup flippers its way up the steep and slick seaweed reef, struggling to reach its portly…
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birds | conservation | Nature | ocean | Philosophy
What Makes a Halcyon Day?
When I set out to follow the belted kingfisher, I started with the intrigue of a definition….
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Finding the Ancient Mariner in a Crab Shell
“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze – On…
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Communing with a Cormorant Colony- the purposeful watch
Flute song spirals up into the trees along the coastal trail to the pelagic cormorant colony. Swainson’s…
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Low Tide Revelation
Egrets like moon slivers Shine in the morning light Stalk the edge of eelgrass And the still…
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