Post begun on Nov. 5 2021 from Seattle, WA This is just to get this blog post going. A Downy Woodpecker was right by the road that sliced through a Cranberry Bog/Farm in Grayland back in October. Delia and I were down there looking for a...
Posted from Seattle, WA Sept. 20 2021 Delia and I just got back from the bootheel of New Mexico today, from a visit that was too short. Not all the news from the Southwest this year is bad. There was a monsoon, rather than the newly common...
Posted August 26, 2021 from Seattle, WA, a place where it never rains. Our friend Kathi in Bellevue sent us a shot she took from her kitchen window. I allowed as it was pretty good, which would be true even if I myself had ever even...
Posted from Seattle on June 6, 2021. I'm running this ad on Sunday August 15th in the A-section of the Seattle Times. First let me include this link to a story on the Ojibwe Nation's fight against Line 3. 'It's cultural genocide': inside the fight to...
posted August 6, 2021 from Seattle, WA I am very excited about a new Friday Harbor painting I’ve gotten underway this summer. Several decades ago I decided Friday Harbor was a hopeless candidate for a painting but we made a trip up there in early summer...
Posted from Seattle August 1, 2021 Sometimes people say "This is a beautiful day." The comment is usually meant to mean sunny with blue sky, the absolute worst and most boring, unaesthetic conditions possible for photography or nature viewing. To use the latter worldview, we have...
Posted from Seattle, WA August 3, 2021 In frustration over being in the lonely position of not being on the Infrastructure bandwagon I designed the ad below, a curmudgeonly piece of writing to be sure. The third bullet point of the ad contains a statement that...
Posted from Seattle WA on June 18, 2021 The ad shown above should be appearing in the June 20 A-section of the Seattle Sunday Times. The ad credits the Wild Fish Conservancy for it's leadership and activism that is going against the tide of inaction,...
posted from Seattle on June 11, 2021 On June 7, 2021, my new Super oversized larger-than-I've-ever-printed-before print Whales Starboard Super XL was printed in SeaTac at Olympus Press.. Olympus has a Heidlleburg and you can't just press the Print button on those babies. Here are Olympus Press...
Posted May 20, 2021 from the central Peloncillo Mtns, New Mexico We are down in the Bootheel again. Delia and I went over to Portal, Arizona on May 18th chasing birds and Nature. One of our last stops was Cave Creek Ranch, a beautiful birder's resort with a...
Posted May 1 2021 from Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA We had a nice migration fallout on Beacon Hill today, May 1st, by far the biggest pulse of the year so far. Mainly Yellow-rumped Warblers, but also including Wilson's Warblers, Orange-crowned Warblers, a MacGillivray's Warbler and a...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 18, 2021 After a winter that featured above-normal precip and lower-than-average temps in key months, Seattle has become a blast furnace—well, maybe people around the country don’t consider temps in the high 70’s to be like a “blast furnace,” –but...
Posted on March 31, 2021 from Seattle, WA On a whim I published 7 or 10 digital prints of Whales Starboard sized at 24 x 36, by far the largest print I have ever published. I priced them at $60, and to my surprise, they are...
Posted March 24, 2021 We've all probably heard of a “Surrogate Mother.” But have we heard of a “surrogate wetland?” Leave it to California to birth the concept. In that state, Rice-farmers are flooding their land during the off-season--turning rice fields into temporary wetlands that can be...
Posted from Seattle on March 6, 2021 This winter we have sauntered out to Granite Creek in hopes of seeing the White-winged Crossbill flock that seems to be stationed there but are not always easy to find-- We dipped on them thrice, but each time were...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Feb. 15, 2021 There has been plenty of pushback against the pessimism suffusing the messaging around masks and distancing, but most of it has emanated from the segment of society that thinks of empathy as a four letter word. (It...
I have about 6 more Bat paintings to start and then I have to finish all the Bats. Then add numbers and text and produce the poster. The whole project is on a fast track. This is a revolutionary way to present Bats, with 5...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 23, 2021 I was worried and fretful about this trip to the BioResearch Ranch, which we knew would be in the middle of a severe drought that has settled over much of the west, with the Bootheel being among the...
As the Corona virus pandemic shows, the world just needs to love Bats more! And Halloween paraphernalia is going to have to become more biologically accurate! I confess I've never known anything about the various Bat species that live in my state or others for...
Posted October 16, 2020 from Seattle WA The ad featured in this blog should be in the Sunday Seattle Times this week (Oct 18, 2020.) In the ad I endorse Joe Biden (and implicitly Kamala Harris) and thank him for his reluctance to sign on with the...
Posted September 23, 2020 from Upper Post Office Canyon I didn't know Bears kissed so much! When our young dynamic researcher friends Emily and John suggested putting a game-cam at the wildlife tank just up-canyon from the house here, I thought, "Oh, that's nice, maybe they'll get some great...
Posted through smoke on sad anniversary day of September 11, 2020 Birds, especially the Neotropicals--the birds that migrate south to the Tropics every fall--love to take baths, regardless of the weather. But as smoke today descended on Butyl Creek (our 12-foot recirculating creek on Beacon Hill)...