Although I stayed pretty close to home during the spring, avoiding Covid-19 and all, by June I couldn’t stand it anymore. So I June 1st, I packed up the car and headed into central Nevada to record the sounds of the wild. My first stop was Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, near Fallon. Breeding activity was […]
Wow, where did the summer go? It seems like just yesterday I was waking up to some lovely dawn choruses and now many of the birds have already migrated south. With breeding season over, even most of the resident birds have quieted down, so the steppe and woods surrounding my home are much quieter now.
I take my dog for a walk almost everyday, usually to a chunk of BLM land on the east side of town. The city and BLM have created a small recreation area there, with many trails winding up and around a mountain. The trails are in a stand of big sage, an ancient stand where
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It’s been a hot and very smoky summer in western Nevada. I almost hate to complain, given the horrific blazes that have occurred just on the other side of the Sierras in California. Much of the smoke from those fires moves east, over the Sierras to linger in the valleys beyond. Day after day of
