I’ve watched loons intimately for 25 years, and I just noticed a couple of splendid bits of camouflage for the first time. The light was right. First, the tail. Not only does […]
Loons Confusing Eagles
Big Payback for Feeding Winter’s Birds
They leave a little grain behind … … and till it in with their digging, and it grows among the flowers.
Why Beauty?
Beauty is a signature that a human was present, using its bodily senses to measure the precise balances in a landscape and to align its body with them. Some beautiful early morning […]
Memory in the Grand Coulee
When people first looked out of this rock shelter in the Grand Coulee, there would have been no scree on the cliffs on the far shore of this ancient river, but there would […]
Raven Steals the Moon
A pigeon laid it.
The Sparrow Knows
You’re not alone.It’s not just social structures that bring you together. The right environmental structures do so as well.
The Mysterious Surface of Water
When the tension of light on the surface of water is randomly broken, the water no longer looks like water. The random patterns are more attractive to the human mind. It’s because […]
Fish Flying Above Chief Ashnola’s Grave
It’s a cactus thing. Ospreys are grassland birds, too. So are trout.
Eel Trouble at Miracle Beach
So, you find an eel, right? Excellent hunting! And then the eel fights back. Sigh.
The Irony of California Quail Wisdom
Beautiful quail, looking out at the world. What doe he see? Not the world!
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