(Quick note – I always strive to use either my own photos or those of my contributors but sometimes you just don’t have the photos you need!) Two Common Nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) in a week! With an English binomial such as this – you wouldn’t… Read More
One of my favorite musicians, Mos Def, wrote a song about it (give it a listen). Water is a basic necessity yet we seem to have a damned hard time keeping it clean and healthy. Everyone needs it and recently there’s been a discussion of… Read More
Drew Wheelan has been doing an incredible job of covering the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill through blogging and video content managed by the American Birding Association. If you ask me, this sort of reporting is more important than almost anything else out there. Not only… Read More
This photo of a Hooded Oriole is an embodiment of enjoying nature. Exploration of living systems is fleeting and one amasses their database for comprehension with repetitious events like this one. At the risk of sounding sentimental or romantic (which I can be, but I… Read More
A far parcel of Oregon houses a lasting corner of my imagination. Down a seemingly endless road of silty dust, potholes, and bovine distressed shrub steppe, I find myself at a gate in late May. It keeps happening every year now. No sign of nearby… Read More
Simone, a large number of our cohorts, and I are off to the Malheur Bird Observatory for Memorial Day weekend. It’s a tradition upheld by Steve Herman, seeing as he is the proud owner of the observatory. So – down to Central Oregon for the… Read More
Looks can be deceiving. If you showed me this photo of a Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), there’s a good chance I’d say it was a female. For all intensive purposes, it does appear to be of the fairer gender. But there’s a hint that should… Read More
As the spill continues, I still find beauty in the unity disaster brings. People make connections, whether to their reliance on a healthy environment or to people they might not have encountered. Artistic expression can be just as valuable and motivating as an article or… Read More
The abrupt, moist change in Seattle weather combined with a stuffy office got me daydreaming of places distant. Possibly it’s a little morbid, but I think the signs above are pretty amusing. Just in case you are confused – the sign on top is a… Read More
In attempt to bring more content, I’ve decided to start doing photo blasts on a regular basis. The general idea is to find a pretty picture that me or one of the contributors of Wingtrip have taken and say a few words about it. Simple… Read More
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