Cascade Ramblings

Last night we witnessed this lone female Northern Pintail fly in and land on Beaver Creek. She was most elegant in the evening light, and...

Western Sandpipers turned out to be the most numerous bird of the day.  Jeanette counted 72 of them in two or three flocks that worked th...

It’s a very rainy windy day here at the Welcome Center at BeaverCreek State Natural Area , making birds and human visitors pretty scarce....

We have been seeing huge numbers of Cedar Waxwings lately; in fact they are the dominant species right now. We can easily count sixty bi...

Oh, it’s just another Great Blue Heron; it’s such an easy trap to fall into. Reminds me of the common saying, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve...

I photographed this Red-tailed Hawk this morning, apparently drying out its wings. We have had a couple of days of rain, so he was probab...

Saturday night I read on the Internet that Elegant Terns were reported on the South Jetty in Newport.  Ever since the showing of the movi...