One of the most wonderful things I enjoy about writing this column is all the help I get from friends who enjoy the wild things around us as much as I do. The great American writer and illustrator Maurice Sandak used the title, “Where The Wild Things Are” for his delightful 1963 children’s book. This […]
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The Life and Times of a Golden Eagle Family
The Central Oregon country is blessed with people who are always ready to pitch in, and “get the job done!” That’s why the free cam streaming the only life-and-times of a golden eagle nest is up and running again this year: www.GoldenEagleCam.com. As anyone who has set up this kind of system knows, it ain’t […]
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Natural World: Bird Walks at the Old Mill
The Old Mill District and the East Cascades Audubon Society (ECAS) are again offering free weekly bird walks to any one of all ages every other Friday, April 1 through the end of May. The free walks are guided by an ECAS bird expert and wind around the trails of the Old Mill District that […]
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All Good Things
Artist Katie Daisy is wild and free
A few years ago I met a gal. I was officiating a wedding and she was the maid of honor. It was my birthday, so after the ceremony we went downtown to get some drinks and ended up hitting it off swimmingly. Much later that night, we found ourselves in Tin Pan Alley, drunkenly stumbling […]
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Letters 7/14-7/21
LIGHTS OUT, SAVE BIRDS Every spring and fall an extraordinary migration passes through our city, mostly unseen. Millions of birds fly overhead navigating, with great precision, using the starlight, landmarks, and the earth’s magnetic field. Many are songbirds such as warblers, thrushes, tanangers, and sparrows. Their journey is long and hard, but they continue on, […]
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Rare, But Not Unheard Of
Our band-tailed pigeon
There I was, checking my email, as I do every morning, when up pops one from my good friend and fellow airman down the road, Sage Dorsey. (Every once in a while, Sage will strap me into the back seat of his beautiful Bellanca Scout and we’ll fly out over forest and rimrock looking for […]