As I was walking this morning along the rural road that leads up the hillside from our home in Scappoose, I found myself noticing the trash that littered the sides of the road. Lying among the Queen Anne’s Lace and Himalayan Blackberry brambles were countless discarded paper cups from just about every fast-food retail chain […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
The Backyard Bird Newsletter
As the writer of a popular nature-oriented blog, the number one comment I receive is “John, you’re such a talented writer; where can I read more of your writing?” I always answer this question the same way, “Thanks Mom…” Seriously though, like most any profesisonal writer who maintains a blog, my work is published more […]
Reasoning with Hurricane Season
At 8: 47AM this morning I was scheduled to depart Portland International Airport aboard a Continental jet bound for a connection in Houston and then onward to Corpus Christi, Texas. Hurricane Ike changed that. The event to which I was travelling, the 2008 Hummer/Bird Celebration in Rockport, Texas, has been cancelled by its organizers and […]
To Be or Not to Be a Bee
When is a bee not a bee? When it’s a fly. That’s what I learned the other day while out on an abandoned yarding road near my home in Scappoose armed with my new 100mm macro lens. I was actually looking for butterflies but as this is September and northwest Oregon is one of the […]