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Garden Mind Tis the season for summer tours of luscious coastal gardens

w/two or three photos that I will attach Monday morning; for now, please create standard horizontal photo boxes…

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Garden tour artists reception this Friday

OCEAN PARK — Bay Avenue Gallery in Ocean Park will hold a special reception Friday, July 17, from…

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Birdwatching The cedar waxwing — a smart connoisseur

Dr. Madeline A. Kalbach For the Observer The cedar waxwing is one of the few bird species that…

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Protecting butterflies by planting violets in coastal counties

Conservancy brings native flowers closer to home By Katherine Lacaze EO Media Group SEASIDE — The North Coast…

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Northwest Nature Log Starlings: obnoxious but impressive survivors

By SUZANNE STAPLES In writing about the birds that we see around us everyday, I have hesitated to…

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Birdwatching Pileated woodpecker — another drummer

The pileated woodpecker, like the hairy and downy woodpeckers, is also a drummer. The drumming is loud and…

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Birdwatching Tree swallows and a call for bluebirds!

Tree swallows have nested in the Tarlatt Unit of the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge for many years. The…

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Fish & Feathers Offshore salmon fishing warming up

Salmon fishing off the Washington coast in Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco) has picked up considerably in the past…

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Northwest Nature Log Those geese all around us

It’s easy to overlook the critters we share the neighborhood with. Sparrows, starlings, mallards, geese — we see…

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Garden Mind Honoring the ancestral gardeners: Mom and Dad

My earliest memories of my father are of him watering plants in the garden and making beautiful things…

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