People+Plants+Wildlife

Green herons (Butorides virescens)  aren’t the most widely seen bird on the north coast. They like to hang out in wetlands and and along the slow moving waterways that feed into them, where the subtle colors of their feathers blend in with

All the recent rain was most welcome in advance of our final On The Land program of the season.  “If we don’t get some good rains soon,” observed walk leader Mike Patterson a few weeks ago, “there aren’t going to

Dragonflies, spiders, beetles, worms and over 100 students from grade school to graduate school were just some of the creatures that showed up to count and be counted at the 2012 Clatsop Plains BioBlitz. The 107-acre Yeon Property, acquired by Lewis

Well, they say it’s always a good day when you learn something new, so today counts at least double for me, as I have an update on the odd pelican photo from our earlier post, and I’ve gotten a lesson

A recent trip to the Seaside Cove by Neal Maine and Michael Wing, the grandfather-grandson photography team known as PacificLight Images, caught Brown pelicans, Heerman’s gulls and California gulls enjoying an abundant snack of anchovies in the waters just off