How to Have Fun and Find Birds on Western Oregon Christmas Bird Counts
Featured Photo (by Connie Page): Birders scanning trees, pasture and fence lines along a country road. This post synthesizes two documents I created about 10
Sap on Tap 2
Featured Photo: A male Black-throated Blue Warbler forages in sapsucker wells in a Sequoia tree near Sutherlin, Douglas County, Oregon, January 1, 2023. Two years
Black-crowned Night-Heron Nests and Young near Roseburg, Oregon
Featured Photo: One of two nests used in 2022 to produce at least six young Black-crowned Night-Herons in central Douglas County, Oregon. On November 29,
Infinity in a Vulture Vortex
Featured Photo: Over 70 Turkey Vultures, frozen in as many different positions, in flight over the South Umpqua River, southwest Roseburg, Oregon, October 7, 2022.
Sap on Tap, Tap, Tap
Featured Photo: A female Rufous Hummingbird approaches sap wells created by a Red-breasted Sapsucker in a willow tree trunk near a high meadow in the
Sweet Birds Near The Honeycombs
Featured Photo: Adult Peregrine Falcon swoops near nesting cliffs at “The Honeycombs,” a multi-unit rock-climbing location a few miles east of Idleyld Park, Oregon. The
A 120-ft Artificial Stream in Southwest Oregon: Life in the First Five Months
In the summer of 2020 I constructed a 120-ft long stream with a small terminal pond for general enjoyment but primarily for attracting wildlife of
A 120-ft Artificial Stream in Southwest Oregon: Design and Construction
From a dream it came, and I began to work…. Exactly how the thought began, I don’t recall. But once I imagined the possibility of
Local Wildlife Forages on Fallen Acorn Woodpecker Granary
Melrose, OR. During late fall or early winter, 2019, this dead Douglas-fir broke off about 8 ft above the ground and splintered into several more