by Rich Leighton | Jul 16, 2019 | Birds, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest, Washington
Mergansers feed mostly on fish and have serrated edges to their long and thin bills that help them grip their prey, hence the common name “sawbills”. MORE PHOTOS OF BIRDS MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora,...
by Rich Leighton | May 30, 2017 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Washington, Wildflowers
One of the absolute best times to visit the wild rolling hills and steep ravines and coulees of Washington’s Columbia Basin is in the late spring. Last week I was traveling around the Vantage, WA are, just east of the mighty Columbia River near Whiskey Dick...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 7, 2017 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Trees, Washington
Easily one of the most beautiful of all of the hardwoods on the Pacific Coast, the Pacific madrone is a member of the heath family and closely related to rhododendrons, and is the most northerly broadleaf evergreen trees on the continent. Early Spanish settlers in...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 6, 2017 | Herps, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Reptiles, Travel
Unusual but not unheard of, this northwestern garter snake (Thamnophis ordinoides) was unexpectedly found actively hunting in the grass near the beach on a rare February sunny day on the Oregon Coast in Oswald West State Park. One of the smallest of garter snakes in...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 19, 2016 | Food, Foraging, Montana, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Washington
I’m right in the middle of my busy portrait and wedding season, I thought I’d share some of the images I’ve taken from the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains of one of my favorite finds while hiking the beautiful Pacific Northwest –...
by Rich Leighton | Nov 9, 2016 | Landscape, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Travel
Timing is everything! This is just a quick post showing just how fast the sky can change in 14 minutes! I was at Cannon Beach in Oregon photographing one of the world’s biggest sea stacks on the most amazing coastline in the world at the perfect moment of low...
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