On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Animals
The commercial herring fishery occurred while I was on my trip this year, so I missed seeing it, but I have not missed the herring season. Last night we had an activity at the Coast Guard gazebo and along the shore there I saw more seals and sealions than I had ever seen before in … Read more
Saw bumblebees for the first time this year. I’m sure they were out and about during the sunny weather while I was gone, however. They were busy buzzing around the blueberry flowers. Most of the flowers seem to have survived the chilly nights that occurred last week, but I did notice some bushes that seemed … Read more
Some students had been planning to spend Thanksgiving weekend camping at Camp Lake and one of them invited me to come up and visit if I wanted. That got me thinking about going to Medvejie. It’s been over a year since I last went there, so I thought it would be good to head out … Read more
I think I recognized an alarm call today while I was out in the back yard trying to get pictures of a red-breasted nuthatch. There are many juncos that frequent the area behind our house and quite a few of them were scattered in the open area near where I was standing. They would periodically … Read more
Connor came in this morning before his mom and I were up to tell us that he heard a Steller’s Jay. There has been one hanging around lately, though we had not heard it for the last couple of days.