Today’s jay – the Canada or Grey Jay – was found during a hike in Olympic National Park. I decided to do a relatively short hike up Mount Storm King. Once at the top I was greeted with a bit of a crowd (I think…
Category: Nature
This week we’ll take a look at three different jays from across the country… Today we’ll start with the Florida Scrub Jay – endemic to only Florida it is obviously a fairly uncommon bird. I managed to find a handful of them while hiking around…
Another giant fish of the PNW, Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) can grow to about 5 feet long and weigh up to 120 pounds! When they swim through the water they move like torpedoes – only needing a few thrusts of their tails to get some incredible…
The Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) is another hallmark Pacific Northwest site while diving, and my friends there made sure to get me to some dive sites that had them. I only once saw one out swimming which is not super common, but even seeing them…
Be sure to look at how comical the bills on those ducklings look – they are so much larger than they look like they should be!
Some more bison photos from RMANWR, but this time with some bird friends…
Pied-billed Grebes are found pretty much across the entire USA and that is evident by the fact that one of these photos is from Florida while the other is from California. Usually they are fairly difficult birds to photograph because they tend to be somewhat…
I only saw a couple of these during my entire time diving in the PNW, but the baby Red Rock Crabs look very different from the adults…
Though I never managed to get a photo I was truly happy with, any time I saw a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis) it was a treat. These little fish (about 1-3 inches long) are just so cute even though they are armoured with those…
In case you’re curious how this is “part 3” of my Rocky Mountain National Park posts, I realized I didn’t label the previous ones as RMNP, so I went back and changed them. If you’re curious, they were the Moose Mother and Calf and the…
