Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind

Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind

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A Naturalist at a Museum
As I have been regularly writing, nature is all around us.
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Memory Lane
Connecting to Place
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June 2025

Birders Gone Bad
Some Observations on TV/Movie Birds
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Street Smart Naturalist Subscriptions
Greetings all.
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Time and Tide Waits for No One
The narrow band between high and low tide is Puget Sound’s most protean ecosystem, where the rhythms of existence fluctuate with the twice-daily…
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We All Live in a Watershed
Seeps.
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Snow Flakes of Cotton
Tis that time of year when cotton starts to snow the landscape.
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May 2025

Too Hot! Goats to the Rescue
Yesterday the temperature peaked at 82 degrees in Seattle.
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Twelve Ways of Seeing Blackbirds
With Apologies to Wallace Stevens
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Flying Fish
My story last week about the herring caught by the Osprey reminded me of another flying fish tale.
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Top Wild Sights of Seattle
The other day at one of my talks for my new book, Wild in Seattle, someone asked me what was the wildest thing I had seen in the city.
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Bird's Eye Seattle: 1884
Finest View Ever!
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