Washington

As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I…

What kid can resist the siren song of bunny rabbits frolicking in the grass?  No kid that I would want…

I love puffins.  Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild…

“Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest in…

How anyone can possibly resist a bird that has been called Whiskey Jack is beyond my comprehension.  And Whiskey Jack…

One of the birds that birders visiting the Pacific Northwest most want to see is, of course, the Northwestern Crow,…

Clark’s Nutcracker, sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker, will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker, the woodpecker that acts like a…

Here I am, back from my first ever visit to the Pacific Northwest.  We had a blast, the family and…

Feeling thoroughly refreshed well before sunrise, an unhappy but not unexpected result of the time difference between the East and…

Sara and I have both jointly and independently criss-crossed this majestic country of ours, but neither of us had ever…