One night a seagull had a dream. He dreamed he was walking through the parking lot with the Great Bird. Across the sky flashed clouds from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the snow: one belonging to him, and the other to the Great Bird. When the last scene [...]
Or, they’re nice deer, dear. Or, well, whatever….. In any case, I found this herd of black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus) calmly grazing and prancing and performing the other duties of a deer in a field near Wilsonville. There were actually about a dozen of them, and they were, among other things, amusing the residents of [...]
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Sometimes, you just know when an animal is claiming it’s home territory. And something about the look of this seagull (Larus occidentalis) tells me that I shouldn’t mess with his home. Actually, I kind of like his furniture, at least in the setting of his particular beach. Photo: Taken on Ediz Hook near Port Angeles [...]
Well, it’s like they say. If you’re going to be a heron, you should be a really great heron! A heron like this great blue heron (Ardea herodias). This one is at home just off the beach, and standing in a light rain, near the Edmonds Ferry Terminal. When I asked Ardea what he was [...]
As the sun begins to set behind the Olympic Mountains, the great blue heron (Ardea herodias) stands on watch, looking over its shoulder to look for passing ships. Or perhaps a passing fish for dinner. I’m sure it has a great view of the people (homo sapiens) standing on the beach watching it. Photo: Taken [...]
The Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a bird native to the West Coast of North America, from Siberia & Alaska down to Mexico. Around this time of year, it is not uncommon to see them in Puget Sound, as this one was found near the Port of Edmonds Marina. They love to catch and eat [...]
Larus Occidentalis would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Edmonds, Washington. If he had an arm with which to make a sweeping arm motion, he would be showing you the Washington State Ferry M/V Spokane docking at the Edmonds Ferry Terminal. It is always 70F and partly sunny in Edmonds, with perpetual [...]
No, it’s not that I was really doing anything that I would be embarrassed for. Rather, it was that I was caught doing it. I’m not sure what “it” was, but it is just so very obvious from the way that this seagull is looking at me that I have been caught doing something. (Click [...]
Back when I visited the site of the Buena Vista Ferry a couple of months ago, I was greeted by a local cat who took the opportunity to show me around a bit. It obviously lived at a house nearby, but came down to the ferry dock to see who the human was who was [...]
