About 15 years ago, my son and I dug out two back yard fish ponds…
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By January Bethany Lake in NW Oregon, just west of Portland, gathers storm waters from…
Name’s Red. Red Woodman, Major Mammal Crimes Detective. This is supposed to be my last…
The hummingbirds dash around my back yard, as hard to track as a feathered 3-card…
For starters, this “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property. It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and…
Hard rains just swept across NW Oregon and vicinity. The creeks climbed their banks. I…
For 20 years, I’ve tracked the movements of herons and egrets where I’ve worked and…
A backyard pond turns oily. A DIY oil test confirms it’s more than iron oxide, …
An Oregon developer of a proposed gas station next to a creek and wetlands has…
The skies have not yield a moment of rain for months. But I knew how…
It’s especially hard to organize folks these days. You can’t call a meeting. It’s tough…
But of course the damsel flies are not really drinking; they are laying eggs. They…
I’m just an old race horse out to pasture, pawing the ground when the race…
I’d always felt there was more than one heron that’s been visiting my backyard ponds…
The inch-an-hour storms have driven the anglers away from my Neighborhood’s Bethany Lake. It’s full…
I reached for the grimy tumbler. It was empty. Not even any ice. I reached…
But just a day or two after Billy Heron, the patriarch of my back yard…
“Oyez, I call Frog Court into session,” rumbled Chief Justice Jeremiah, himself a very large…
Although evening temperatures skirt 32 F, the native Chorus Frogs of NW Oregon continue to…
The Tualatin Valley of Northwest Oregon forms a shallow bowl, about 50 miles in diameter,…
I began tracking the migrations of the Great Egret (ardea alba), when I worked at…
Sundown in Portland Oregon was at 4:32 pm. At 4:40 pm, I walked past my…
I walk from my house to Bethany Lake, west of Portland Oregon, on many days. …
He wakes up at dawn and peeks out the window, looking for the heron feeding…
The Great Blue Heron is one of the largest birds in North America, standing 4…
I often walk around Bethany Lake, 10 miles west of Portland Oregon. Swollen creeks pour into…
I fly to pieces, Every time that I see you preen I fly to pieces, I can’t…
The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is especially known for its mammoth annual migrations of…
I ventured out into a crisp Autumn morning with my camera. This was the first…
The Great Blue Heron abruptly appeared at my back yard this morning at 10:13, and…
For over a decade, Great Blue Herons have visited my backyard ponds in NW Oregon. …
Herons are taking fish and frogs “to go” out of my backyard ponds, for trips to their…
Lucy Siale, a 16 year old Bay Area resident, called for, organized and MC'ed Oakland's…