Oaks feed everyone, through wildfire and drought. Birds and moths depend on them like humans depend on groceries, housing, and social services.

I quite like House Sparrows, invasive colonizers though they are. They’re friendly: comic relief from a loaded world of human interactions. They come in about fifty shades of brown, the males with rich black bibs.

One of the birds marked as a “tipping point species” by the 2025 nationwide State of the Birds report is our local resident, the Rufous Hummingbird.

WHITE SALMON — The April 11 Wild About Nature talk was "Falconry: Bird Abatement and Captive Breeding by Master Falconer Jimmy Bathke and Appr…