365 Caws

365Caws is now in its 16th year of publication. If I am unable to post daily, I hope readers who love the natural world and fiberarts will seize those days to read the older material. Remember that this has been my journey as well, so you may find errors in my identifications of plants. I have tried to correct them as I discover them. Likewise, I have refined fiberarts techniques and have adjusted recipes, so search by tags to find the most current information. And thank you for following me!

Friday, December 31, 2021

On Again, Off Again

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Day 79: Snow in the Pacific Northwest isn't light and fluffy as a general rule. It's soggy, sloppy, and it clings to evergreen branc...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Coming Down Sideways

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Day 78: Quite literally, it is coming down sideways. We had another power outage overnight, but fortunately, the temperature had risen from ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Chicken If You Don't

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Day 77: This one is for my botany partner Joe, a tradition we established to acknowledge any relatively substantial snowfall in western Wash...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Ixoreus Naevius, Varied Thrush

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Day 76: If he had his druthers, this fellow would be eating insects, spiders and berries, a diet which is severely curtailed when there'...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Warming Up

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Day 75: Perhaps I shouldn't have sung quite so many choruses of my snow song. Maybe I shouldn't have put "Let it snow!" in...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

The Bird Whisperer

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Day 74: Friends call me the "Bird Whisperer." Whispering is important. If you must speak, speak softly. And it's hard not to h...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Siskinmas!

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Day 73: It's Siskinmas at my house! Six inches of snow have fallen since I took this photo yesterday, and the number of Pine Siskins has...
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Drawing on years of experience as a forest ranger, backpacker and mountaineer, my writings and images reflect my abiding love of Nature.
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