hoping to get down there in a day or so to check out the salmon… Welcoming chum salmon home to Pipers Creek E. Fudd
just got back from vacation in Puerto Vallarta – enjoyed watching these crazy ‘zanates’ (otherwise known as a grackle) zip around and make weird noises all day – Zanate! E. Fudd
can be read here. Enjoy! E. Fudd
From Take Part: Catching Shark Finners Red-Handed How do you catch poachers in Costa Rica who cut the fins off sharks, throw the animals overboard to slowly die, and then sell the body parts to Asian restaurants that make shark fin soup? One way is to surreptitiously attach satellite tracking devices to suspected poachers’ boats […]
very, very cool…. From the Seattle Times/AP: Chinook spotted in upper reaches of Elwha River PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park says that for the first time in more than a century, chinook salmon have been spotted in the upper reaches of the Elwha River following the recent removal of two dams. Fisheries staff equipped […]
scary. Especially when we have two in our own yard and many around the neighborhood….there was a note in the latest NCCC issue, but here’s a similar article: No songs of praise for holly, ivy in Northwest forests E. Fudd
Very cool…. From the Seattle Times: Seattle couple hosts attic full of bats Six weeks ago, overnight, about 270 bats decided to take up residence at the Columbia City home of Brenda Matter and Bruce Crowley. Yes, it was a disconcerting sight. Every evening, 270 bats come streaming out of the attic of the two-story, […]
From the Seattle PI: Wow photos: Two orcas leaping in the NW and more click through above to see the other great photos! candybowl
From the Seattle Times… Bog a battlefield for developer, neighbor in Snohomish County E. Fudd
It’s funny how easy it is to just “solve” things with a gun, funded by someone else (e.g. the American Taxpayer). High time conservative ranchers take some ‘personal responsibility’ and step UP….!!!! I have never had a problem paying into a system that compensates them for cattle losses as a result of predator species protection, […]