By Elizabeth Enslin on September 28, 2009
I’ve been reviewing some photos I took this summer and found one that makes my day….
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Posted in Seasons and Rituals, Sustainable Gardening, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged photography, reptiles, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on September 25, 2009
On our Northeast Oregon property, we have an old house that’s rotting. It has little historic or architectural value, so we’ve been leaning towards tearing it down. Then my nephew, Gerek, found the bat in the closet….
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Posted in Homesteading, Species of the Week, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, photography, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 26, 2009
I first heard the strange noises in late June: whistling squawks that sounded like sea gulls five hundred miles off course. The calls began at sundown every evening and continued throughout the night. I couldn’t imagine what besides an owl would make so much noise after dark. But owls hoot. Right? Couldn’t possibly be owls, I thought….
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Posted in Around the Northwest, Species of the Week, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, species, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 11, 2009
I had originally planned to post on another species this week. In fact, I have a backlog of species that have been inspiring and distracting me. But rattlesnakes have a way of making themselves heard above the din of all else
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Posted in Biodiversity, Species of the Week, Sustainable Gardening, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged photography, Sustainable Gardening, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 6, 2009
At night out here, coyotes yip and owls hoot. By day, hawks and rattlesnakes patrol the canyons. More elusive predators – cougars, bears, bobcats, maybe even wolves – are probably not far away. I love being close to the wildness of all this. But it also means tempering my sentiment for individual animals. The
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Posted in Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 6, 2009
I haven’t seen a rattlesnake all season. Then yesterday, down by our spring, I saw three. I ran back to the yurt…for the camera. I’ve been wanting to get some good rattler photos. I’ll need to keep working on it. This photo doesn’t do justice to the snake’s beauty.
Even when I closed in to snap
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Posted in Biodiversity, Images, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged photography, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 4, 2009
Many thanks to Chris Clarke at Coyote Crossing and the folks at Bats Northwest for helping me identify the bat I found. It’s a Townsend’s Big-Eared Bat — a species of concern in Oregon and Washington. I’ll be doing more research on them in the coming weeks and will share it in a future Species
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Posted in Images, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 31, 2009
My nephew – an expert critter finder – has been visiting this week. He was exploring the old homestead on our property in northeast Oregon and found this gorgeous bat in the closet. The ears are amazing. I snapped a few photos and then left it alone.
I don’t have a good mammal field guide out
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Posted in Biodiversity, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 15, 2009
Last week, I mentioned a late nest of chipping sparrows in a small tree near our parking area. Now I have some pictures. You can see how tiny the tree is in the photo below. The nest is about two-thirds of the way up the tree. Soft-hearted Jerry put up the fence to protect the
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Posted in Biodiversity, Images, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, photography, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 15, 2009
I’m in Central Oregon this week with a steady wi-fi connection, so I can begin to catch up on some internet work, including long overdue reports on the latest bird activities around my Northeast Oregon yurt.
I’ve finally identified the species that hatched out of the eggs I discovered in a rusty tool box on a
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, photography, wild
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