On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Connor, Rowan and I went to Medvejie Lake. Inspired by photos of the smooth ice on the frozen lake (posted by Dan Evans), I decided I should take Rowan and Connor to Medvejie Lake. Connor had been there previously, but this was Rowan’s first trip. It was a cold day – Connor’s heel had been … Read more
Today we took advantage of the sunny weather and visited Magic Island, where I took pictures of some lichens and other flora and fauna that caught my attention. Of particular interest were a very late Hermit Thrush foraging at the edge of the woods and on the beach. Also several plants getting started early in … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Floyd Tomkins sent a message to the Sitka birds e-mail list with an interesting observation. I asked for his permission to post it to my weblog in case others have additional insight into what was going on. This past Saturday, a ball of baitfish or similar prey got trapped at … Read more
I’ve been thinking it’s time to update my Sitka Trails site. It’s hard to be believe that it’s been so long it doesn’t even have the Herring Cove trail in there. I had also heard that the recent rain event had hit the trail pretty hard, and I thought it would be interesting to see … Read more
We got up to fairly heavy snow showers, but Connor, Rowan, and I went on a couple of hikes anyway. All the pictures are from those trips. Read more about the outings at my trails blog.
On this year’s Christmas Bird Count I had selected 3 or 4 routes covering neighborhoods in the central area of town. I walked for nearly 7 hours and covered 13 miles (though only a little over 12 of that was for counting purposes). Rowan joined me for parts of my day, while Connor had been … Read more