On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
It rained for much of the day, continuing the weekend trend (which peaked yesterday with 3.8 inches). This evening I decided to head down to the park and see if I could get a picture of some of the low-lying fog I had seen on the water earlier in the afternoon. While walking, there were … Read more
Photo linked from the Earth Observatory page (larger versions available there) After recent observations of the greening of Silver Bay and the suggestion that the cause was a coccolithophore bloom, I was interested to see the photo above on NASA’s Earth Observatory page. This particular entry discusses an imaging showing two different kinds of plankton … Read more
I almost passed by without noticing the odd streak of sand across a face of the rock embedded in the beach. I was in a broad transition zone between the sandy lower beach and loose cobbles at the base of a bedrock cliff at the highest intertidal zone. It would have been easy enough to … Read more
Earlier this year I posted about yellow jacket scrape marks on my deck. The activity has continued throughout the summer and I finally got around to trying to capture (digitally) one of the workers. I posted a photo on bugguide and got the Common Aerial Yellow Jacket (Dolichovespula arenaria) back as the id. I still … Read more
Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) seem to be fairly common around Sitka. Sometimes they wash up on shore dead (which is how I usually find them), but this one was fun to watch as it moved up and down through the water column while slowly drifting on the current past Magic Island. This jellyfish can … Read more
On a late July hike, I noticed what appeared to be some sort of silken egg sack/case hanging from a sedge in a muskeg in Indian River valley. I wondered if it might be from a spider, since I couldn’t think of anything else that might have enough silk to make such a case. Still, … Read more