Bees, Birds & Butterflies

Now it is thawing, but when I began this draft Janet and I were sitting in a powerless house with a ten inch burden of snow on branches and lawns and cars and walkways, and a chilly chilly nightt...

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… For it it is in the dew of little things we find our morning and are refreshed. Kahlil Gilbran  It has been 15 months since our last post. We have excuses. But as convincing as our ...

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 Text and photos by Nancy Partlow©   Smoke trees are really cool shrubs.  The gazillions of teeny flowers that smother them in the spring attract pollinators like nobody's...

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Text, photos and videos by Nancy Partlow© Late summer and early fall can be a fun time for observing juvenile bird behavior.  One way to identify a first-year&...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow©  On a recent walk with Janet through the shady environs of Priest Point Park, I noticed an ivy-covered log lying on the ground. &nbs...

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    A couple of weeks ago, Glen and I went to the San Juan Islands in the Salish Sea of Washington state for a week long Marine Naturalist Training Program, offered by the Friday Harbor...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow© Neon-pink flowers are in currently in bloom along the  East Bay waterfront.  I didn't know what they were ...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow© At long last, our weather pattern  seems to be changing, but it was a hard winter and early spring.  In addition to the months of ...

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The prairies at Glacial Heritage Preserve, Thurston County, May 2017 Saturday May 13 was a cool rainy Prairie Appreciation Day. Janet and I were grateful for the canopy that sheltered us and our ...

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Hi all.  We have a few posts pending, but life has had some upheavals.  In the meantime we have put into our blog a new reference page with our three 11x17 Thurston County pollinator po...

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Rusty Burlew is a beekeeper friend who lives in the same county and writes a regular (at least weekly!) blog about bees.  While these days she writes mostly about honey bees, she knows alot ...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow© Yesterday, I came across a large alder tree that beavers had toppled across the CLIC main trail.      I spoke to a couple who were...

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In trying to update our blog, I too hit the dreaded Publish button.  Indeed there be dragons, and they reproduce at will.  MOST of the time we like Blogger.  BUT, sorry for th...

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Text by Nancy Partlow©.  All photos taken at Capitol Lake by Nancy Partlow©, unless other wise noted. In our community there is a magical kingdom.  Towered&nb...

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Text, photos and videos by Nancy Partlow ©  All photos and videos taken at the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center, unless otherwise noted.  Renowned biologist E. O. Wilson...

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     Here in Thurston county, at the southern end of Budd inlet in Washington state, we are fortunate to have some beautiful, very unique prairies.  Historically, this land wa...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow © Every year, I  keep trying to see the prairies at the peak of bloom, but never manage to time it just right.  This year, ser...

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Part 3 in a series of stories about the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center Text by Nancy Partlow©  All photos were taken at the Interpretive Center by Nancy Partlow© or Barry ...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow© I was so surprised when I first realized that the Olympic Mountains can be seen from the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center.  When looking up the estuary, my...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow© All photos taken at the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center unless otherwise noted The Capitol Lake Interpretive Center is a verdant refuge for wildlife.  Its...

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Text by Nancy Partlow © All photos were taken at the Capitol Lake Interpretive Center by Nancy Partlow©, unless otherwise noted. My family’s interest in the Capitol Lake I...

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Text and photos by Nancy Partlow©   The annual gatherings of bald eagles on the Skagit River in the North Cascades are quite famous, but I never dreamed we had anything similar to...

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Every fourth Monday evening in Olympia a number of us gather to explore the rich diversity of bees. Right now, with winter rain and wind and lack of flowers, there is not much chance to observe p...

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Barred Owl      Somewhere in the deep dark of early morning, the Barred Owl called.  A piercing series of low hoots, repeated over and over again.  I came out of deep sle...

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    American Widgeons, loafing along the lake A few days ago Nancy, my dad and I took a walk around Capitol Lake.  In the dog days of late summer, the lake is thick and turgid with...

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