Rusty Ring

( Stryx varia .)

The warbler wipes its muddy feet on plum blossoms – Issa ( Plum Garden, Kamata, by Utagawa Hiroshige, courtesy of Rawpixel.c...

I had never heard of this alt hymn, or the artists who built it, or even the television series that launched it, before I first heard i...

( Ardea herodias. Standing about two feet tall here.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

As the world swings into Christmas, I believe justice demands I use this forum to correct a historical inequity that's been allowed...

doves flush from the maples art deco airframes torpedoing through the branches rolling left and right (Photo courtesy of Imran Shah an...

In the fifty-odd years I've worked with pets and farm animals, I've learned that anxious and abused ones often fear men – but wo...

(Photo courtesy of my friend Laura, who rescued this guy from a cat. Prevailing theory is he's a juvenile black chin [Archilochus ale...

The wildlife of the North Pacific rainforest is famously reserved; where the East has its flashy cardinals , red efts , and indigo bunti...

"What makes you different makes you valuable." Terry O'Reilly (Painting of Japanese long-tailed rooster courtesy o...

(Cygnus columbianus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Winter solitude— In a world of one colour The sound of wind. Bashō

(Trumpeters [Cygnus buccinator] . Brief stopover over two foggy days. Watching this large flock of very big birds light on this small lak...

(The age of this robin's nest, blown out of the tree in a recent windstorm, can be estimated by the strand of baling twine incorporat...

(For my money, the American robin [Turdus migatorius] lays the most beautiful eggs in the woods, and we often find large pieces of t...

(Probably an immature bald [Haliaeetus leucocephalus] .) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Happened upon this young grouse on the deck in front of a small uninhabited cabin well back in the woods. It must have smacked into t...

(Ardea herodias.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Junco hyemalis.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Cyanocitta stelleri) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .