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Great images! Another pintail bites the dust!

Thanks so much for this! Paul wasn't quite as detailed so your comments are quite helpful. The goal for me would be to try to get as many detailed images as possible without stressing out the fish for too long. The photarium seems like a good option but maybe there are others?

I should have been steelhead fishing but only had partial days to play so I spent a couple of three hour sessions flailing away for coastal cutthroat in the flats. I am trying to find a fish for Canadian scientific illustrator Paul Vecsei to draw for me. For those on Instagram, check out...

Jim, have you spent much time exploring Umatilla NWR? It's been quite a few years since I have visited it but the sanctuary areas should hold quite a variety of waterfowl. The spring migration is just getting underway and hunting season should be over unless there's a late goose season. I...

Wowee!!! You know about Trentham? You grew up in the area correct? I LOVED Trentham. The Trentham Hotel and Cosmopolitan were our go to pubs there (and the only pubs ha ha). What a nice, quaint, friendly town. Yes we went to Hanging Rock. Our daughter told us about the movie but we...

The issue of commercial bay crabbing has been controversial for years. I don’t expect ODFW to make any changes unless someone has new information?

Isn't Netarts Bay already open to commercial crabbing?

Climate Prediction Center has just issued a slight (20%-40%) risk for heavy snow. FIngers and toes crossed... Detailed Summary For Friday February 06 - Tuesday February 10: WPC Days 3-7 U.S. Hazards For Wednesday February 11 - Tuesday February 17: The other half of this pattern...

This morning's 16 day precipitation accumulation models (GFS and Euro). I also looked at the snow accumulation forecasts which suggest these storms are not exactly spawned out of the Gulf of Alaska. However, both models forecast 40"-50" of snow in the northern Oregon and Washington Cascades...

There was a nice pileus cloud on Mt. Shasta a few days ago.

We just returned from spending a couple of weeks in Victoria, Australia with our oldest daughter Sarah and granddaughter Ella. They live in Trentham which is a small town (pop 1100) about an hour outside of Melbourne. We woke every morning to the sound of melodic magpies, screeching cockatoos...

Cool! Do you know which subspecies?

We are in Trentham, Victoria Australia visiting our oldest daughter and granddaughter. Two nights ago we got to view the Aurora australis. It was a pretty good show for the little bit we were out viewing it. Here’s a cell phone shot from the end of the lane where she lives.

I posted a photo in the hunting pics thread of my daughter with a banded Canada goose she had recently harvested. The bird was locally banded at a state wildlife area I used to manage. While I was gainfully employed, we banded westerns throughout NE California and the Oregon Klamath Basin each...

Brian - I checked with my daughter and she said the bird was banded as a hatch year (young of the year) in 2024 at Butte Valley Wildlife Area which is about 20 air miles away from where she harvested it. This is not at all unusual - western Canada geese tend to be non migratory. I found some...

Our youngest daughter Jess and her hubby went waterfowl hunting at Klamath Basin NWR a few days ago. Not only did she harvest her first ever Canada goose - it was also banded!

The Unconquered, In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace I first read this book after hearing an interview of the author several years ago on NPR. Wallace (who was on assignment for National Geographic) joins explorer Sydney Possuelo (who was the first director of...

This is not at all intended to be a political and I'm not sure about the Seattle Forecast Office but the National Weather Service underwent some severe staffing reductions this past spring. I know the Sacramento California FO no longer has 24/7 staffing which seems crazy to me. There was a...

Scott - I agree that the idea of cutting down a nest tree sounds horrific. The no brainer was to close the trail but at the time, that was something the park was hoping to avoid given the time from incubation to fledging would be during the peak of the visitor season. The Chief of Resources...

Scott's post reminded me that for part of one summer while I was there, the Park Service had to close the Four Mile Trail between Yosemite Valley and Glacier Point due to its proximity to a goshawk nest. A hiker sustained minor injuries when a dive bombing goshawk impaled her scalp with its...