On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
While walking the Forest and Muskeg trail yesterday, I stopped to take the pictures I’m using on this post. There are two things in particular that catch my eye, one that I noticed at the time (and prompted me to take the pictures in the first place). The second I didn’t notice until I got … Read more
Juvenile Marbled Murrelet Back in January got an e-mail from Jim N., who was planning to visit Sitka on a cruise ship in August and wanted to do some birding. Other than some very regular routines, I hardly know my schedule beyond the length of time a pen’s ink will remain visible on the back … Read more
I went up Indian River with Connor and Rowan to take care of ibuttons. In the muskeg there was a large swarm of flying insects. We had brought a bug net, so Connor was able to capture some and we learned they were winged ants. I guess today was flight day for the Myrmica ants … Read more
A tiny patch of snow is all that remains on the Pyramids on 11 June of this year I was interested to see the photo below show up on one of today’s “on this date in” links. In contrast to this year when the snow was off by mid-June, back in 2008 there was still … Read more
Another 2+ inches of rain fall yesterday, raising water levels again. After learning about the Indian River stream gauge page, I tracked it throughout the day to help decide when I would go check out the water levels at Indian River. I ended up heading down there a bit after 4pm, and it was clear … Read more
Download Radio Show The 17 August show featured a conversation with Scott Harris. We talked about some of his on-going projects related to ecology in Southeast Alaska. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.