By Linda This Red-shouldered Hawk was hanging around the backyard on a rainy day recently. If he was hoping to catch birds at the feeder, it might have been better to be less obvious! I was conducting a Climate Watch count today and noticed…
November 28, 2018 Yesterday, when I was taking pictures in the morning and jumped in the car to warm up, a Boat-tailed Grackle came to check out my camera and scope. We were nicely entertained. This morning we went to St. Marks National Wildlife…
November 24, 2018 While Regis did most of the packing for the short camping trip we are leaving on tomorrow, I went birding. It was a great deal for me. We are headed to see the St. Mark’s Wildlife Refuge. We should be able…
September 1, 2018 Once we left the Rocky Mountains, we headed directly home without exploring. It is the longest that we have had the tow vehicle hooked to the motor home without removing it. We drove from 275 to 375 miles a day, stopped…
August 16, 2018 I think the whole west is smoky right now. We may have moments in the morning where it doesn’t seem so bad, but as the day progresses the smoke and haze increase. After we left Glacier National Park area, we headed…
August 12, 2018 Yesterday we headed to Glacier National Park. We thought the smoky situation would get better after we got over the mountains in Idaho, but it got progressively worse as we neared the park. We could barely see the mountains when we…
August 10, 2018 We left the west side of the Cascades and headed across Washington state to Spokane. It was very smoky the whole way. When we watched the news, it said that the smoke from the California wildfires was entering Washington on both…
August 9, 2018 Yesterday we took Coco back to Jason. She is a very sweet little dog. We had a nice dinner with Jason and Dan last evening and got to see their pictures from their recent trip to Iceland, Sweden, and Norway. Beautiful! …
August 1, 2018 Yesterday, we had to take Dart to the vet. The nearest vet is 34 miles away. Dart’s been having digestive issues and yesterday was going on day 3. We’ve been down this path many times, so I knew he needed some…