Basic facts about the maritime climate of northwest Oregon: 1. It rains 2. It rarely snows 3. It rains alot 4. If it gets close to freezing, we get ice, not snow (see #2) 5. Water falling from the sky is liquid 99% of the time 6. Regarding #5 – when it’s solid, it’s generally […]
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS:
Paying a Debt
This is not a post about birds, bird watching, or natural history of any sort. It is about a promise I made to someone I’ve never met – a promise to help bring a little more attention to a group of people trying to do something good for another group of people who have been […]
Sudden Springtime Cold Weather Requires Extra Feeder Attention
For some odd reason, Mother Nature seems to have forgotten that it is now the latter half of April, and that in Oregon that means rain and moderate temperatures. This evening the forecast for the northwest corner of the state, as well as southwest Washington, indicates temperatures around freezing, and possibilities of ice or snow […]
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
Among the wide variety of book genres pertinent to the subject, the field guide is unparelleled in its importance to the growth and development of modern bird watching. In the course of its history since the development into its modern form by Roger Tory Peterson in 1934 with his landmark A Field Guide to the […]