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Our Birds: A first love’s tale, Part I
She was five years past hatching. Alone now, she was jutted down over two white eggs tucked under…
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Our Birds: 2014, ‘Twas the year that was …
Not as extraordinarily improbable as 2013’s year of birds, but 2014 did give Clallam County a very good…
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Our Birds: The candy store is open! Part II
“Eurasian hobby.” Let me repeat that bird’s name again, only this time shouting it — “EURASIAN HOBBY!”
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Our Birds: The candy store is open! Part I
In southern Arizona, there’s a rest stop in the Patagonia highlands. It’s a small rest stop, only one…
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Our Birds: How it is out there … sometimes!
Birds are, for me — as I’ve shared in past columns — an all encompassing facet of life.…
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Our Birds: Tick listing!
Life list. County list. Yard list. Local patch list. First of year list. On a wire list. Poop…
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Our Birds: Birder to birder: ‘No … really?’
“I didn’t know that!” she said to me, while looking out across the mudflats, listening to my bird-babble…
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Our Birds: What is an OPAS field trip?
The notice in Harlequin Happenings — Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society’s (OPAS) newsletter — might read: OPAS Field Trip,…
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Our Birds: Walking the dog …
This is a mundane story. It’s about waking, making coffee and watching the sun rise.
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Our Birds: The Guru and the Grasshopper
“Sensei?" The old man turned his gaze toward the boy sitting cross-legged in front of him, “Yes, Grasshopper?”