The Wallowa mountains are a small range of high peaks in the northeastern corner of Oregon - between the mellower Blue Mountains to the west, and the ...
Philippines Birding
I had an opportunity to travel to the Philippines for work, and decided since I was going all that way, I'd add a little extra time to explore new ...
Texas Gulf Coast Birding – Part 2 of 2
This is a continuation of Part 1... After a few days in the Corpus Christi area, I headed south to the Rio Grande Valley. One might even argue ...
Texas Gulf Coast Birding – Part 1 of 2
I just returned from a 10-day visit to the Texas Gulf Coast, with a focus on finding and photographing birds. Typically, when I take trips like this, ...
Thermal Birding
Minor updates in Sept 2024 What if you had a special power revealing every bird as a glowing spot of light? Birds obscured behind a tangle of ...
Photographing Pelagic Birds
A large number of birds spend nearly their entire lives at sea - only begrudgingly landing on remote islands to breed for a couple months a year. The ...
A Morning at Ankeny…
Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge - located just south of Salem, Oregon - is one of a handful dotting the Willamette Valley. While these refuges can be ...
Walking Portland
We had this book for years before bothering to crack it open. When we finally did, a whole new world opened under our feet. Portland Hill Walks, and ...
Nibble Comes for a Visit
We had a fun visitor last weekend. My sister Karen was out of town for a long weekend so we watched her cat Nibble back at our place. She liked ...
Welcome to the Sausage Factory
Sausage was once a euphemism for "all the left-over stuff at the butcher shop you don't want to know about". Thankfully, we've grown out of that ...