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The Fishers of Oaks Bottom — Part One: The Kingfisher & the Heron

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Oaks Bottom is a pond full of fishers — but a few of them are masters, and they couldn’t go about it more differently. One is all explosive speed; another,

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Scenes from my Garden

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A few scenes from the garden this season — a rose letting go, roses planted for strangers, and lilies caught in the last good light. Different flowers, one quiet idea:

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The Garden’s Smaller Guests — Bushtit, Chickadees, and a Nuthatch

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Some mornings the garden fills up with small, fast birds working the feeder. None of them hold still for long — which is half the fun of trying to photograph

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Spring Is the Time

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Spring is the season of new life. You can see it everywhere, if you slow down — in the hardhack (Spiraea douglasii) bursting open along the water, pink and soft

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Backyard, Street, Refuge: Portland in Bloom

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This year the garden is talking back. Last spring I planted about five new rose bushes along my street — the small, sun-loving variety that you see everywhere in Portland

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Red-Breasted Nuthatches in My Back Yard

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Some mornings the backyard becomes the story. This week a red-breasted nuthatch family has been visiting the feeder — mother and babies, working the suet, calling back and forth from

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After 54 Years, My First Western Skink

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This morning at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in Portland, I saw something I’d never seen before. A Western Skink, sunning itself on the stone steps along the trail. Brown body

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A Male Anna’s Hummingbird on the banks of the Willamette River

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I wanted to share about the conditions on this shoot — the lighting was incredible. Around 5pm the sun hit the hummingbird perfectly, lighting up his rose-pink throat while the

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First Photos of a Black-throated Gray Warbler at Sellwood Park

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A lifer for me today at Sellwood Park, right along the Willamette River — my first ever photographs of a Black-throated Gray Warbler. These little songbirds are spring migrants that

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Golden Hour at Oaks Bottom — Eagles, Ospreys, and Spring in Full Bloom

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Perfect evening light at Oaks Bottom tonight. Seventy degrees, golden hour around 6pm, and the wildlife was out in force. The trails were full of people enjoying the spring weather,

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A Morning in the Cherry Blossoms —A variety of songbirds and woodpeckers

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Spring has arrived in Portland, and my backyard fig tree has become a stage for some of the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful small birds. A suet feeder in the garden

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A Curious Visitor at Oaks Bottom

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I was out at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge the other day when I noticed movement along the water’s edge. A North American river otter had pulled itself up onto a

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Spring is Around the Corner

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 I made a music video of my favorite photos and clips from Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge: lots of songbirds, waterfowl, and a few surprise visitors. The music is my version

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A Quiet Lesson from the Water: When Birds Teach Us to Live Together

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The morning I found myself beside the water, camera in hand, I expected the usual solitary moments — a single heron standing like a statue, a kingfisher’s brief flash of

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A Winter Wildlife Spectacal in OaksBottom

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In Oaks Bottom I had that rare, clear quality that makes the city seem to exhale: a low, golden sun, a thin, crisp air, and the marsh grasses catching light

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