Matt Hunter
Consulting Wildlife Ecologist, Field Naturalist & Guide
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 years ago, one for an inland and one…
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 ago, I shared observations of diverse…
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, 2022, I slowly drove down a…
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. These were among many hundreds…
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 Umpqua Basin Cascades, western Oregon,…
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 rock formation is named after…
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 all kinds, especially dragonflies. Design…
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 attracting dragonflies and damselflies to…
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 pieces when it hit the…
Roseburg, OR--I recently set up some trail cameras at a local stream here in the Umpqua Valley, mostly hoping to capture some images of American Beaver. This sequence shows an…