Rusty Ring

( Stryx varia .)

(Here's another bullfrog [Rana (Lithobates) catesbeiana], rather better lit and differentiated from her background. She's a w...

Over the past eight years I've posted regular reports on the welfare of local starfish as they endured (and some populations beca...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(The beavers. Like all rodents, apparently created for the express purpose of sowing chaos.) Appearing also on My Corner of the ...

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

(Pisaster ochraceus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Taricha granulosa . One of the many good things in life.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Cornu aspersum, the brown garden snail. Originally imported to the North Coast from Europe to be eaten as escargot; now it's eatin...

(Monadenia fidelis.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

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...

This hand-sized specimen of Puget Sound kelp crab (Pugettia producta) quite startled me on the high tide line, far from its habitat ...

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

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Rana [Lithobates] catesbeiana. Invasive and destructive here on the North Coast, but extremely common.) Appearing also on My...

( Plethodon dunni ; a melanistic specimen, lacking the wide, yellow-green back stripe and mottling typical of the breed. Another ...

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

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

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

Healthy adult P. ochreceus. I conducted my informal annual survey of a local beach a few weeks ago and found the wasting-syndrome si...