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