Posted Nov 92014, from Seattle, WA Delia and I went out to Three Forks Wildlife Management Unit yesterday, that’s near North Bend and Snoqualmie, WA and encountered this little King. This is a male Golden-crowned Kinglet. Probably like most birders, I never thought that much about the...
Posted Oct. 6, 2014 from Seattle WA. Seattle Wildlife Artist Ed Newbold is calling for a complete revamping of our approach to energy policy and climate forcing. An ad that will appear in the Seattle Times October 7, 2014 recommends some of the changes Newbold thinks...
Posted October 5, 2014 from Seattle, WA It’s almost the norm in art class to be told to be swift and decisive. Figure drawing classes like to go with the two-minute pose—get it done and go for fresh and expressive while at all costs avoiding that...
Posted October 4, 2014 from Seattle, WA We recently went up to Glacier Basin on Mt. Rainier. On the way outside Enumclaw this Coyote was in a field. We stopped and I got out to shoot it, which Coyotes almost always take literally, as this one...
Posted August 28, 2014 from Seattle, WA An article in the Seattle Times on the sighting of a Basking Shark in the Puget Sound did half the work for me. It contained a sidebar on Sharks that occur regularly in the Sound and I was very...
Posted July 21, 2014 from Seattle, WA “It’s not that expensive to take good care of natural areas.” -Kurt Zwar, former Park Steward at Magnuson Park in Seattle fired and charged with crimes for removing non-native invasive plants from a meadow In defense of nature, Green voters...
Posted July 24, 2014 from Seattle, WA I’m closing down my first 1/3 century effort at painting and beginning my second. My motto for the second, unlike the first, will be “Don’t paint hard, paint smart.” No the problem with that is I'd have to be smart. I’m just going...
Posted July 19, 2014 from Seattle WA We’re still tying up the loose ends from my beloved parents-in-law's passing, so we just got back from a trip to the land where they lived for 40 years in the New Mexico bootheel. Getting there involves a 7 mile...
Posted July 19, 2014 from Seattle WA We’re still tying up the loose ends from my beloved parents-in-law's passing, so we just got back from a trip to the land where they lived for 40 years in the New Mexico bootheel. Getting there involves a 7 mile...
Posted from Seattle May 24, 2014 Brian Pendleton and I got back last night from our GREAT MIDWEST WARBLER SAFARI. We landed in Chicago on May 16 and birded beginning Saturday May 17 through yesterday May 23 at 3 pm in Indiana. No, make that 5...
Posted May 5, 2014 from Seattle,WA updated June 4 & 29th 2014 If you ever get the dubious fortune of listening to a Parks Dept. presentation on why Cheasty must become a mountain bike park, you will hear plenty about the terrible condition and neglect the Cheasty Greenbelt has suffered from. ...
Posted April 28, 2014 from Seattle WA I’m running an ad in the A-Section of the Seattle Times on Tuesday April 29, 2014 against the gifting of eminent domain to the foreign company that wants to build the Keystone Pipeline. Here is the ad as it will...
Posted April 27, 2014 from Seattle, WA The songbirds are migrating north and our creek is becoming bath central. We live on Beacon Hill, where except for the Cheasty Greenbelt, creeks are all piped away to the Westport Sewage plant. So we installed a 15 foot creek...
Posted April 17, 2014 from Seattle, WA In 1998 I started the painting Birds of Beacon Hill. Thankfully, I started it on canvas. I got really excited about it for a while, but as often happens, I ran out of steam and into severe technical difficulties. ...
Posted April 9, 2014 from Seattle, WA It goes against the DNA of a green voter to vote against a Parks levy, I totally realize. But we must examine this impulse. “Parks” is only a word. A Park can Yellowstone National Park, or East Marginal Way...
Posted April 9, 2014 from Seattle, WA It goes against the DNA of a green voter to vote against a Parks levy, I totally realize. But we must examine this impulse. “Parks” is only a word. A Park can Yellowstone National Park, or East Marginal Way...
Posted April 6, 2014 from Seattle, WA Parks is trying hard to paint a picture of Cheasty as a worthless basket-case of a dying ruined forest, victim of neglect and non-native species. Let’s put aside for now the fact of Park’s responsibility in Cheasty’s current condition and also...
Posted from Seattle March 23, 2014 Here is a leaflet I've prepared for the upcoming meeting on the Cheasty Greenbelt Tuesday March 25, 6:30 to 8 pm at the Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. South (Seattle, WA) (Please come): Scroll to the end of this blog...
Posted March 13, 2014 from Seattle WA I rushed to get the painting Bottle Beach ready for last year’s Shorebird Festival in Hoquiam. I published a few copies of the early version and they were on sale at the Festival and at the store, but I...
posted from Seattle March 16, 2014 Cheasty has been a greenspace for approximately a century, and is now Seattle's last interior forest. The Parks Department wants to convert it to Mountain-Bike Central and has been attempting to keep the whole thing quiet so that neighbors and...
Posted Feb 23 2014 from Seattle We said goodby to CD Littlefield and headed down canyon through the old gates to the ranch yesterday morning. We had 15 minutes to spare in Tucson near the airport and stopped at a drain-way/arroyo --that mercifully wasn’t concretized-- to...
Posted from Seattle Feb 2, 2014 We have to make a trip down to the ranch where Delia’s late dearly beloved parents spent their last 38 years. Calling it a ranch may sound pretentious to some, as it is a conservation ranch with no livestock. It’s in...