During certain times of the year at the northernmost tip of the Willamette Valley where I make my home, it seems that no telephone wire next to an open field is complete without an American Kestrel perched upon it.
During certain times of the year at the northernmost tip of the Willamette Valley where I make my home, it seems that no telephone wire next to an open field is complete without an American Kestrel perched upon it.
In bird watching, there are certain species that are casually referred to as “invisible;” not because they’re difficult to see, but because they’re either so commonly seen or of such little interest to most observers as to go unnoticed. Both the American Robin and the American Crow fall into this category, as does the Rock […]
One of the most valuable bits of advice – so it has been proven to me by experience – that I received back when I first took up bird watching was “always look at the ducks.” The logic was that ducks, being – like crows and gulls – so commonly seen by most people in […]
With the recent report that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is sending back information regarding not just evidence of ancient lakes once having existed on Mars, I thought it might be a good time to point out that Ocean Worlds; The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets by Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press this coming January.