Recent content by RichS

My wife and I made a trip to the Tucson area to bird watch. It is even hotter there than here in Richland, but the birds are awesome- also deer, pronghorns, desert cottontails, antelope jack rabbits and assorted lizards. The surrounding mountainous area called sky islands and are hotspots for...

Darn tough socks

Watched three otters for an hour this morning along the Yakima in Richland. Big otter seemed to be teaching technique. They eventually settled in and chewed on a dead carp for a while.

From the reach museum in Richland. Muskie fossil from the Ringold flow geological period.

I prefer these standard outcast flippers over my force fins. I will use the force fins on lakes you can drive to( which I mostly avoid), but they are heavy and don’t fit in my backpack too well. The standard outcast are lighter, cheaper, stack together for transport, are easy to put on and have...

I am going to go with predator urine and a radio to start with. There are already motion lights back there that they set off all night long.

6 or 8 kits and the parents suddenly appeared yesterday evening and they are back today. They dug a hole under my shed. Cute, but I will to find a way to drive them off.

Blooming on Rattlesnake as well Elk up there too.

White-faced Ibis today

This week in Richland city parks Yellow Warbler Black Headed Grosbeak Female Red-Winged blackbird Anna's Hummingbird Lazuli Bunting American Goldfinch Yellow Breasted Chat California Quail

I should have mentioned that. On Sunday we drove down to Islamorada. On the way back it took 2 hours to go 5 miles on US 1 which is the only way off the Keys. This was due to the fire which was threatening the road. The guide told is when we were out that it had been an exceptionally dry dry...

My wife and I made a trip to the Everglades area and fished for a few hours with a guide. He had an awesome bass boat which made it very comfortable. The guide encouraged minnows as he said that the fish were not hitting well on flies or artificial lures. We purchased 10 dozen shiners and they...

Some South Florida birds. Red bellied woodpecker Brown Pelican American Gallinule Anhinga Mottled duck- a Florida native Royal Tern Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Limpkin American White Ibis Tri-Colored Heron Green Heron

Some lizard and turtle types from the Everglades Some sort of slider I think Iguana Soft shell turtle Alligator Amercan Crocodile at Shark Valley lizard gecko

The story I heard as a kid was that the pinks escaped from some facility near Thunder Bay. By the late 70s they in most of the MN tribs at least. Big pink in Those streams was 17”.