Tunnel vision is awful easy to acquire. Just go out in the wild and look for something specific. All around you, the critters you AREN’T looking for will sit in plain sight, probably laughing.
Old stories, news and photos from the last century of local newspapers in the Columbia River Gorge. A hundred years ago, an owl roosted in the governor's chair and a famed local wrecked his car.
The local Vaux’s Swifts are tiny, soot-colored birds that live mostly in the air. They nest in trees and chimneys, sticking three-inch nests of twigs together with saliva. They don’t bother with territories and may build multiple nests in the same tree.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife media release
Free news:Â Last week in a Corvallis neighborhood, residents worked together to ensure a newborn fawn spotted on a grass strip between a sidewalk and road was left alone. By early evening, its mother returned for her fawn.
Epic arguments between a house wren and a big gopher snake once woke me up at dawn, when the reptile tried to snitch eggs from the little wooden nestbox outside my childhood bedroom window.
Lesser Goldfinches are tiny, thumb-sized creatures, rich green on their backs, gilded dandelion on their breasts, with trim little black caps and splotchy white-and-black wings.
