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Aka Canachites canadensis. I’ve seen plenty of girls, but I’d never come across boys in war paint before. And then out stepped this handsome fellow—even though it was autumn and hardly the season for boys to be sporting that kind of look. The ISO was cranked . . . → Continue reading Spruce grouse
At the end of July, we spent about a week travelling around southern Alaska. For the last couple of years, I have traditionally been unable to keep up with everything, although I very much hope to eventually write about . . . → Continue reading Alaska. The Great Salmon Saga: Sea Lions and Gulls.
This creature is not rare but quite asocial, misanthropic, and hidden. It usually walks gloomily in shallow water looking for fish, frogs, and other delicatessen. Bittern prefers overgrown marshes, so to meet and especially to see a bittern is not easy. Before this time, I saw . . . → Continue reading American bittern
More of winter. End of December on Long Beach, a really loooong beach near the Oregon border. . . . → Continue reading Long Beach and sandpipers
Cathedral Park. Ten years hence. Part One. Aka Lagopus leucura. The smallest ptarmigans. Already started to change colour for winter. Soon will be completely white, just right for snow. Now they are so similar in colour to rocks and grass, that can be seen only when . . . → Continue reading Cathedral Park. Ten years hence. White-tailed Ptarmigans
The longest night of the year had just passed. Today is the shortest day. In several hours we will be in the closest to the Sun position. Because of this, it is so cold and dark. My household animal by all her body demonstrates what she thinks . . . → Continue reading Close to the Sun
Saw it recently in Eastern Washington. The bird has some strange growths on the beak, but looks healthy. One more photo:
Actually, the drake, females are much frugal. They nest in tree holes (or in nesting boxes that are built for them in wetlands everywhere now, after they were almost extinguished at the beginning of the last century). They also like to sin on the tree branches despite . . . → Continue reading Wood Duck |
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