Posted from Seattle, WA May 9, 2013, after return last night from New Mexico and Arizona. Last Saturday Carroll Dwayne (CD) Littlefield, Delia and I headed East over the pass to visit the old homestead of Shorty Miller. Shorty was a Depression-era rustler, no relation to present owners of the big ranch to our … Continue reading
Posted April 29, 2013 from Seattle, WA. The Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival left me with such a good feeling about Grays Harbor, the Festival, the people and the shorebirds that after vending all day at the Festival I decided to postpone the trip back to Seattle and make one last trip out to the boardwalk … Continue reading
Posted from Seattle on March 30, 2013 In recent years waiting for a Violet-green Swallow family to get settled at our house has been a bit tortuous. Swallows dislike really bad weather even more than people do, and in miserable springs a male would show up in the morning in a stiff blowing 45-degree rain, … Continue reading
Posted Jan. 28, 2013 from Seattle, WA The 300 ml lense on my still camera broke in September so I began trying to use my Panasonic Camcorder for wildlife and landscape shots. But on the Peloncillo, New Mexico 2012 Christmas Bird Count I was tripping the light fantastic across a draw and fell and crushed … Continue reading
Posted August 10, 2012 from Seattle WA Delia and I got back from the southern “Bootheel” of New Mexico earlier this evening. We visited her Dad, and it was my first trip ever where it wasn’t to visit “Bob-and-Katie,” since her mom Katie passed away on July 12 at the age of 92. This is … Continue reading
Posted June 11, 2012 from Seattle, WA Delia and I traveled out to the Snoqualmie Valley yesterday and took about 16,000 steps at the Stillwater Wildlife Management Unit there. (Delia wears a “pedophile” (Paul Dunn-from-the-Market’s joke, it’s more accurately called a pedometer) and always knows how many steps we take.) We didn’t find some of … Continue reading
Posted April 29, 2012 from Seattle, WA Here on Beacon Hill, the first big wave of the Warbler migration hit on the 26th of April. As usual the majority of birds are Yellow-rumped Warblers (one male shown scanning for danger before bathing) headed north and upward to the mtns, but Orange-crowned Warblers and Wilson’s … Continue reading
Posted April 12, 2012 from Seattle Our male Violet-green Swallow came to wait for a mate on March 28, a nice day in a cold stretch, and then again on April 5. But either she came to him or he found her and brought her back but they spent April 9 sitting within a foot … Continue reading
Posted March 25, 2012 from Seattle, WA Delia and I went up to Two Rivers Wildlife Management Unit south of Monroe, WA yesterday and experienced moments of Two Rivers magic. We got out of the car and were helpfully shown a Bittern in the slough by some other birders. We would have sailed by and … Continue reading
Posted March 18, 2012 from Seattle Not every venture into nature is equally divine. Today Delia and I and our friend Sherry Lee visited the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge and saw lots of great sights but also some signs that some of the critters were as annoyed by the weather as we were. We got close … Continue reading
