Plenty of interesting sights on the morning ramble, finally got decent shots of the elusive swamp creature known as the Virginia rail. Also some snuggling ducklings and the weirdest thing I've seen in some time, a huge flippin' turtle, I swear two feet long! A spiny softshell turtle, from back east, not native but somehow here in Lake Washington. #Hiking#Birding#GetOutside
Always considered myself a hiker who also enjoys related activities like rockhounding, beachcombing, mushrooming and birding. But recently got a new, better lens and so now guess I'm a hiker/birder, still a hiker but also a bird nerd, as my offspring say. #Birding#Hiking#GetOutside
There really was a Rikki, as in Steely Dan's catchy song Rikki Don't Lose That Number, from the fabulous 1974 album Pretzel Logic. Fagen had had a crush on her in college, the writer Rikki Ducornet. #ThingsIJustLearned
@randahl Now you see why the fascist prick bought the bird shit site? To be the bullhorn of his fellow fascist prick. If you're still on that site, don't approach me, don't talk to me.
Please don't click on WaPo today. Walked the lines in 2000 during the Seattle Newspaper Strike. Didn't do us much good, due to circumstances I think. But I'll always support my union brothers, sisters and others.
Love the outdoors, hiking, fishing, rockhounding, birding, the ocean and just being in nature. Author of "Washington's Pacific Coast; A Guide to Hiking, Camping, Fishing and Other Adventures." Former reporter at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Daily World and AOL. Every photo I post is my own unless otherwise noted.