Posted by admin on May 3, 2013 in
Birds,
Musings,
Photography,
Travel It seems like whenever I think it may be time to move on from Idaho and experience some other part of the world that moment of indecision coincides with a trip to the one-hundred-five-year-old Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding environs in southeastern Oregon. The country there is a mix of high sage and bitterbrush [...]
Tags: Alvord Desert, birds, Blitzen River, branding, buckaroos, Buena Vista Ponds, calves, Central Patrol Road, Diamond, Diamond Loop, French Glen, Harney County, horses, lassos, Malheur, mountain bluebirds, mustangs, P Ranch, Pete French Round Barn, ruddy ducks, sandhill cranes, Steens Mountain, The Narrows
Posted by admin on August 18, 2012 in
Birds,
Travel A couple of days ago Betty and I motored north out of east Texas up US Highway 259 into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, towards the small town of Idabel. I can recall my oldest living aunt, who would have been born around 1903, talking about that town when I was a kid. I have no recollection [...]
Tags: Arizona, Arkansas, Banta, creative writer, Dante, Egrets, filmmaker, Idabel, internet, McCurtain County, Mount Pleasant, murder, Oklahoma, rake, Red River, Red Slough, Rodgers, Sibley, swather, Texas, tractor, Tyler, wood storks
Posted by admin on March 2, 2012 in
Birds,
Musings For the last several months my wife Betty and I, along with our friend and bird watcher extraordinaire Leanne Lloyd-Fairey, have helped conduct a raptor watch for the Oregon, southwestern Idaho and southern Washington region. A lot of people are involved in this effort and we are a small cog in the machine that makes [...]
Tags: Arizona City, bald eagle, environmentalists, golden eagle, harriers, hunting, kestrels, Papago Indian Reservation, quail, rattlesnakes, red tail hawks, Sonoran Desert
