On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Pictures from a sunny day walk to Totem Park. Some of the first shorebirds have started to arrive, and unlike the past couple of years, there is still quite a bit of snow on the mountains as spring gets going. My iNaturalist Observations for Today
Yesterday Swan Lake appeared to be about 90% covered in ice, so I was taken aback to see today it was completely ice free. Now I’m wishing I had gone down and looked at the quality/nature of the ice yesterday (and perhaps in the days preceding that). I haven’t ever watched the (d)evolution of ice … Read more
A colorful mix of bryophytes colonized soil below a tree I planted last year Gulls continued in good numbers in the channel. I made a trip to look for anything unusual, and spotted the Slaty-backed Gull that was there yesterday. Once again, I first saw it out in the middle (from the Katlian side), but … Read more
Download Radio Show The April 2nd show featured a conversation with Sonia Nagorski – we talked about the role of black carbon in the environment, and in particular, how it can have a disproportionate effect on the melting of snow and ice. She and other colleagues recently did some preliminary work looking at black carbon … Read more
A lone white cap limpet (Acmaea mitra) stood out on a small rock covered dark with algae in the middle of an expanse of sand. While by no means a large sandy beach, I do not think of limpets as wanders of the sand, and it is easy to imagine the several yards between the … Read more