Millicoma Marsh- a positive climate and education story
Soon after I watched a male belted kingfisher arrow straight into a nest hole in an earthen…
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Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
As April unfurls into May, a pair of belted kingfishers are darting in and out of a…
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Reflections on Kingfishers from Mesa Refuge
To write a book is a winding journey leading to many revisions and cuts until the final…
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A Constancy of Calling Kingfishers
Wow! Sometimes what else can you write after two splendid hours in the presence of chattering, rattling,…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | Rivers | wildlife
Bugbee Nature Preserve: “In attending to this wilderness”
I posted a different version of this blog in winter of 2017. Now in the midst of…
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conservation | Nature | oregon | Rivers | wildlife
“Sitting and Whittling”- Beaver Wisdom
“All was a-shake and a-shiver—glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole…
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Hovering
Do you feel this holding of breath? The desire to exhale? Do you feel this headwind that…
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birds | Nature | Philosophy | writing
Kin(g)fisher Kinship
I woke from a dream, convinced that I’d made a discovery. In some language, kingfisher is “kinfisher.”…
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birds | conservation | Nature | Rivers
Valentine Bird
“The bluish band on the breast of the kingfisher leaves the pure white beneath in the form…
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