As rumor has it that at some unknown time in the future the rains, hail, and other various forms of atmospheric water will cease falling from the sky and spring will finally return (in the Pacific Northwest, the rains will not actually cease but diminish somewhat and those of us here will call that close […]
Let’s play a game, shall we? I was bird watching in the Secret Mountain area of Oak Creek Canyon this evening and I saw this bird. Given its somewhat blocked position, can you name it? Clues: Date of image capture – 27 April, 2008 Location – Secret Mountain, Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A. Method of […]
The Little Peruvian Stone Owl, Strix lapidis peru, is an extremely small bird, roughly the size of a hummingbird, characterized by its pale grey color and its large yellow eyes. Its geographic range is not well known or documented (though the individual observed and pictured here does bear a cryptic pattern on the bottom of […]
It was a three warbler week-end here in Scappoose. This may not be particularly impressive to those living in areas of high warbler activity, but out here in the coastal rainforest of the Pacific Northwest, warblers are not exactly what could be called plentiful. So the sight of even one such species is generally a […]