Northwest Nature Notes

Some people, seeing their first Varied Thrush ( Ixoreus naevius ), wonder if they are having vision problems. This psychedelical...

Most of us think of woodpeckers as black and white birds that forage on tree trunks, hitching their way up, down and around to p...

The Bald Eagle is the national symbol of the United States of America. It seems appropriate for a country to have such a ...

      That’s what Ben Lee t old me years ago when I looked at him like it was April Fool’s Day. Although I think he said, “damn it...

The simple answer is "no," if you value the little critters that make up so much of wildlife. First, cats are n...

You may be surprised to see obviously immature (brown) gulls at the waterside at this time of year vigorously begging from som...

  PACIFIC NORTHWEST MOTHS Guest blog post from Merrill Peterson, of Western Washington University and Carol Kaesuk Yoon, science writ...