posted Feb 27, 2026 from Seattle, WA. This Northern Cardinal was one of two singing at Dunagan's Crossing in the bootheel of New Mexico. This Vermillion Flycatcher was at Cochise Lake in Arizona on Feb 12 2026. Here's a closer shot. We encountered thousands of beautiful Sandhill Cranes at...
Posted From Seattle Feb 3 2026 We spent a long day in the cold out at the Piano Ranch in the Snoqualmie Valley looking for a Palm Warbler that we never found. Another Birder found it 20 minutes after we left, but it led to a...
Posted from Seattle December 25, 2025 (Christmas) This has frustrated some friends (and given them headaches!), but for me being in focus is not the highest priority in photography. I look for shots that teach me things I didn't know or make me realize how beautiful...
Posted from Seattle, WA July 22, 2025 We landed in Tucson July 8 and were welcomed by a Southwest that was parched and desiccated as another "Nonsoon" was apparently replacing the erstwhile "normal" summer monsoon. We had never seen the range look so bad as...
posted from Seattle WA on March 23 2025 Delia and I tagged along on a trip to Douglas County with our friends Brian and Darchelle as spring burst onto the calendar. On the way home we stopped at the Wild Horse Wind Farm on the Vantage...
Posted from Seattle WA on Jan 12, 2025 If you head north these days in Central Washington state you notice it gets whiter as you go, first the tops of the hills and mountains, then everything, and sometimes you can throw in fog. I suggested the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 17, 2024 You won't hear about it on the radio, you won't see it on Television, you won't read about it in the newspaper, but it's migration time! Delia and I have been torn between watching it out the back door...
posted April 26, 2024 from Seattle, WA The migration is up and running. On April 26 Delia and I were home and we had the tripod set up so I could get photos of the birds that came in for a bath. I still missed many, including...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 25, 2024 Fall, winter, and if there is a monsoon, summer are the best times in the Bootheel. Spring can be dusty and very very windy and is usually bone-dry. But it's still spring and a lot of things bloom and...
posted from Seattle, WA on February 22 2024 By Ed Newbold Delia and I were up in the Skagit/Samish surge plain in the last week, that's were we saw the Barn that is the cover shot for this blog. Another shot shows it obscured by flying Snow...
posted from Seattle WA on November 2, 2023. By this time in the fall the birds we see coming to the creek for a bath are a pretty settled group, without a lot of variability. But Delia was watching the birds in the creek and noticed...
Posted from seattle, WA on May 24, 2023 It's Delia's 73rd and my 72nd May. May is by far the biggest month on the calendar if you love Birds, as many come up from the South-lands to breed here in the temperate zone. In past Mays...
posted from Seattle, WA May 17th, 2023. A line from Blondie's brilliant hit song Picture This always amused me "I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower...
posted from Seattle, WA, April 29 2023 Delia held out a long time before scheduling a trip to the Bootheel this time. This winter was one thing after another--sound familiar? We decided to chase a Red-headed Woodpecker that was spending the winter in a huge mature Cottonwood...
Posted from Seattle, WA on February 26, 2023 Ground Hog's Day is for Pennsylvania, (where I'm from). It doesn't apply here in Washington state. Delia and I found this fairly large and very pretty Western Garter Snake out and about in Ridgefield, WA on Friday, the...
posted December 16, 2022 from Seattle, WA We spent the first two weeks of December at my parents-in-laws place in the Bootheel of New Mexico. It takes two days to get there, and we arrived late the night of the 1st, but just before dusk....
Posted from Seattle, WA November 14, 2022 We boarded a ferry on Friday morning early. A sister ship was headed our way under the southern peaks of the Olympics and this is what it looked like. You almost are forced to admit, the Northwest has some...
Posted from Seattle, WA , October 9 2022 Since the beginning of June the Cave Creek Ranch in Portal, Arizona has received 24 inches of rain. Here in Seattle we have received .03 inches, although the number may be higher we may have gotten some in...
posted August 1 through 10 from SW New Mexico and Seattle, WA 2022 My long-time store manager Mark Moon used to always tell the tourists headed for Alaska that if they see a family of Bears, they should always make sure to pet the cubs...
Posted June 19, 2022 Some wimpy Seattleites might be complaining, I haven't heard any. It has been a bit cooler than normal, but the extra rain is being loved to death by the plants. The wetlands are full and everything is green. Rain in April May...
posted May 15, 2022 from Seattle, WA For Delia and I going on a three-day birding trip with Brian and Darchelle is like those stories you hear now and then from the Plains states of people getting picked up by a Tornado and carried a long...
Posted from Seattle March 26, 2022 These Elk were just east of Seattle in the Snoqualmie Valley. As the day's light faded, they came racing out of the forest to socialize in a very large field, there were many. I did not realize that Elk bounded...