By Elizabeth Enslin on August 29, 2010
It’s that time of year again, when my taste buds give up on peaches and berries and begin longing for crunchy pears and apples. We have a lovely old pear tree above the old homestead on our land. Every year, I wait for the pears to ripen… …and every year, the competition beats me to
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainable Food, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged bears, fruit, photography, trees, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 6, 2010
Last week, I spent an afternoon in the old apple orchard to check out the bird nesting scene. The cows found this fascinating….
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Posted in Recent, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged birds, cows, photography, predators, reptiles, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 4, 2010
The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.
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Posted in Recent, Seasons and Rituals, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged birds, holidays, Humor, nature, photography, wild |
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, Featured, 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
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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 |
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