In the sagebrush country east of the Cascades, a Swainson’s hawk newly arriving from its winter home in South America circles above the soaring red-tailed hawk ...
A couple of years ago, I was hiking in the Forest Creek area in the Applegate shortly after dawn. My heart started to race, pounding louder and louder in my che...
It doesn’t take long for the first aerial battle of the day. Just as colors begin to fill in the shadows of a new dawn, the Anna’s hummingbirds are at it.
The ...
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. But be careful. There are a great many ducks, and not all quack. Each has its own special wa...
As a child I was traumatized by a movie that featured hordes of army ants shredding every living thing in their path. Entire villages of people, dogs and livest...
Scattered palms and cecropia trees surrounded the pastures of the small farms on the coastal plain of western Panama. In places, traces of rainforest remained. ...
The state bird of Oregon is the western meadowlark, and the choice is easy to understand. They have one of the most beautiful songs — strong and filled with cle...
In late July I made a short visit to Emigrant Lake to see if any water might remain to encourage shorebirds from the tundra to drop in for a short visit before ...
I was leaning far back in my camp chair with my binoculars glued to my eyes trying to follow a migrating hawk that was little more than a speck in the ether.
A...
It’s that time of year again. As birds wrap up parental duties, they go shopping for new clothes.
Mid-June into early September is the time to molt for most sm...
Forest and field are filled with a great variety of avian sounds this time of year.
Meadowlarks remind us why they were selected to represent the state of Oreg...
The tide at The Capes in Port Orford was receding on a sunny day. From my vantage point high above the ocean I could look down upon the rocks now beginning to r...
If you haven’t canoed on Upper Klamath Lake, you are missing a treat. Don’t wait until June and July when mosquitoes rule the marsh, but in early spring the out...
