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This fall I had a chance to float the Grande Ronde river on a gray day. Bighorn sheep were abundant. Here are some images with possibly enough "land" or rock to possibly qualify as landscape? You can read about the trip in the latest issue of Northwest Sportsman in the article entitled...

@Cabezon There is a park out here in the TriCities where this sort of winter feeding guild, almost exactly as you describe, is hanging out: Two Rivers Park. There are black-capped chickadees and ruby crowned kinglets, along with brown creepers and downy woodpeckers. Once you see one, you are...

I‘ve seen a friend of mine catch them, walleye, regularly on traditional grey ghost streamers, trolled on a very slow meander. on other waters, this streamer has caught me pike minnow. : ( Jay

Driving up from the east on Th, the Naches river was muddy. This is not normal. I’m guessing the thunderstorms earlier in the week are responsible, so perhaps storm water also carried nutrients into the lake, stimulating algal growth. Jay

By late afternoon on Sunday there were an abundance of damsels among the reeds, and a few Callibaetis in the air above them. I did not see much insect or fish activity out in the lake, nor many bent rods. of course I did talk to someone who told me the fishing had been good on Friday! also...

i don’t mind someone keeping a brook trout or two. folks holding up their stringers full of fish is, to me, not in the spirit of a FF quality fishery. it’s not that hard to fish out a shallow lake like that one when some poaching is also going on, I think the psychology of saying NO rainbow...

It is not helpful that they allow keeping a rainbow and otherwise general rules. I have see some folks w fly gear enthusiastically taking their limits or more. j

Friday the weather was cloudy with occasional short showers, breezes and occasional gusts. a mature bald eagle was a treat when it flew around most of the perimeter of the lake. And later when it returned it presented a classic NW scene, a banking eagle wings spread, and a raven with wedged...

Eagles and hawks regurgitate up pellets like owls do. jay

ditto on the Senko worms, and not the small ones! Jay I guess this is in the wrong forum now.

To elaborate, albinos cannot make pigment. So they are white with some pink features like eyes and noses. Leucistic can make pigment but fail to mobilize the pigment into hair or feathers, to varying degrees. So noses can still be black. hair and feathers in Leucistic animals , may still get...

appreciate you sharing this with us and especially the impressive progress. Thank you for explaining about A1C, thats very informative and helpful. Sorry you had to go through all that though. Jay

I got alot of feather detail on this shot of a red tailed hawk, emphasizing the red tail. this bird was perched on a fence post and not going anywhere because it had some prey to devour, so I was able to park pretty close in my "car blind". Finally a truck came by fast and loud and it took off...

Cool shot. Curious on the hawk species. jay

You are correct, rotenone cannot rid lakes of sunfish which find refuge in vegetatation. how do I know this? wdfw wildlife biologist at our local groups meeting told us only one lake in WA has ever been successfully rid of fish using rotenone. knocks the fish back and planted trout thrive for...

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Locust trees that put up offspring in the neighboring lawn. here’s the thing. on my neIghbors lot it’s a beautiful Twisty Baby locust, but those are grafted on common black locust root stock, so the suckers are thorny black locust if not kept from growing. j

This one too. Love the composition and the mood. Jay

I love this idyllic image. Exceptionally beautiful even among all the other great pictures here. the composition invites you in and fascinates from border to border and corner to corner. jay

I appreciate the subdued color scheme. jay (it’s disturbing to see the former site)