Bill Kimzey

G ulls circle above my living room window in and out of low smoky clouds lording over crows huddled in firs. Snow is coming. In some places ...

It is hard to see the mountain for the forest. This time of year it is easier. After an early snow blackberries and wild roses lay flattened...

A noisy brown ping pong ball jumped up from the trail and velcroed itself to the trunk of a Douglas Fir. It cocked its head to best keep an ...

I looked up to the crow on the power line. There's dignity in silence we thought. Previously, me and crows .

Birds erupt outside my hotel window. Cardinal, wren, robin. Yack Yack Yack. All aflutter. Is it about to rain or has Jack returned from nowh...

I came here a lot with Jack after he died. Now I’m back for the wood thrush I suppose, and the gnats and mosquitoes. I take my time along th...

No matter how hard I try to convince myself that beyond that spot of water is the Orient way west past Hurricane Ridge across the ...

-          -  September, 2015 There was only one candidate, really, that had so many opposite pairs of small rounded leaves. We ...

In the early days before the internet, before all these portable devices, before location – you remember – how did we know when t...

When you are a crow and you are forever looking down on people, do you find you still think highly of them?

In the October 16  NYT Trilobites blog , we learned, what some of us have long suspected, fish get depressed. "The trigger for most dom...

Nature is vaster than we will ever perceive. "Our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds for i...

From Terry Tempest Williams, pg 205 of When Women Were Birds , Once upon a time when women were birds there was the simple understanding...

Songs Companion calls Territorial aggression (often male to male) Adolescent begging Alarms Found in What the Robin Knows by Jon You...

Build a nest-level blind in a maple tree. Clear shrubs near seep for a pond. Cut brush for a view of the mountain or for a grassy bank do...

Two Crows One Stone Nice thing about a slingshot you don’t have to carry a clip. A slingshot wants for accuracy but there's lo...