Science

The Solstice finally arrived, yet our days are still short and often gray. It’s a good time to remember the rainbow colors in our...

In the early summer, seabirds such as common murres and pigeon guillemots number about 50 birds per square kilometer in the southeast corner of...

Squirrels are fascinating, and we have 25 species of the Squirrel Family in our region, according to David Moskowitz’s Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest....

Was that a sea otter or a river otter you just saw swimming offshore? People often think they see sea otters foraging on our...

Photographer and naturalist Wendy Feltham from Port Townsend helps us better understand the geese that we so often take for granted.

Heatwaves in the ocean? We call it Earth even though 71 percent of it is water. We interchange “weather” and “climate” in the context...

Damselflies, Dragonflies, Beetles and Grasshoppers In this final photo essay about local insects, we’ll look at Damselflies, Dragonflies, Beetles, and Grasshoppers. Years ago, as a beginning...

PART 2 TOP: Frilled Dogwinkle (Nucella lamellosa) This second in a four-part series on beach eggs will look at some unusual marine snail eggs, starting with...

In the second of a three-part series on Olympic Peninsula insects, we’ll look at some flies, a sawfly, a wasp, a few bees, and...