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Summer(?) Solstice

To the sun devotees gathered at the Solar Calendar Sunday evening, it seemed more like winter solstice than summer. The

It was a minus 0.9 foot low tide, and the Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) had an appetite for seafood.

The West Coast Lady is one of the “Lady” butterflies. Others in our area include the more well-known Painted Lady

Updated 6/19: Some female Red-winged Blackbirds have resurfaced and at least one fledgling is out of the nest and up

There was plenty of stand-up squirrel food, and several squirrels were taking advantage of it, but this little family had

After a string of cancelations due to weather and the pandemic, the Summer Solstice celebration at the Solar Calendar in

In recent years I’ve seen a small population of American Coots — maybe five or six — all year round.

You know they have to rest. They can’t go on zig-zagging in the air hunting bugs forever. How can they

These two swallowtail butterflies are similar and people sometimes confuse them. By good luck, photographer Phil Rowntree and I each

Literally thousands of scaup touched down and rested in the North Basin this spring season on their way back to

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