Archive - Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind

Lost Seal? No, Just Hungry.

Apparently not all pinnipeds read guide books.

Jul 17 •

David B. Williams

6:28

A Naturalist at a Museum

As I have been regularly writing, nature is all around us.

Jul 10 •

David B. Williams

5:46

Connecting to Place

Jul 3 •

David B. Williams

6:37

June 2025

Birders Gone Bad

Some Observations on TV/Movie Birds

Jun 26 •

David B. Williams

6:34

Street Smart Naturalist Subscriptions

Jun 23 •

David B. Williams

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…

Jun 19 •

David B. Williams

4:39

We All Live in a Watershed

Jun 12 •

David B. Williams

6:26

Snow Flakes of Cotton

Tis that time of year when cotton starts to snow the landscape.

Jun 5 •

David B. Williams

6:43

May 2025

Too Hot! Goats to the Rescue

Yesterday the temperature peaked at 82 degrees in Seattle.

May 29 •

David B. Williams

6:35

Twelve Ways of Seeing Blackbirds

With Apologies to Wallace Stevens

May 22 •

David B. Williams

7:10

My story last week about the herring caught by the Osprey reminded me of another flying fish tale.

May 15 •

David B. Williams

5:34

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.

May 8 •

David B. Williams

7:01

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