When I packed up my Subaru and headed down to Jackson County to visit Kinney Creek this past week, I'd forgotten about the mining claims that existed all alo...

For Oregon lepidopterists, butterfliers and butterfly photographers, spring is the time to venture into stream and river canyons in southern and eastern Oreg...

That is the title of a 1973 book by E.F. Schumacher that was very influential for me when I was in my early 20's. It gave me the opportunity to look at Amer...

It isn't often that I get to write about actually finding and photographing an Oregon butterfly species that I haven't photographed before. It is exciting to...

The Illinois River valley in Josephine County may well have more species of white butterflies in early spring than any other part of Oregon. The list includ...

Welcome back to the Butterflies of Oregon blog! Now that spring has arrived in the Willamette Valley, you will be seeing periodic updates on my butterfly ad...

Yesterday, I was at the central Oregon Coast, enjoying spectacular sunny, warm weather and great bird sightings. I went in hopes of photographing a flock of...

With only 12 Oregon butterfly species yet to photograph, you might expect that each one takes me further into the remote and rugged wilds of Oregon. And for...

I don't know why Ditch Creek in the Blue Mountains of Morrow County is so-named. It's really quite a lovely little stream, meandering through meadows of gra...

A little more than a year ago, I wrote "As of June 6, 2018, I have 14 species remaining to photograph in Oregon. If I'm lucky, I will be able to photograph ...

It was the biggest black bear I'd ever seen in Oregon... But I'll get to that in a minute. First, let's talk butterflies! I made a rocket-run down to Jacks...

I'd only seen the Pale Crescent (Phyciodes pallida) one time in Oregon, or anywhere for that matter. And I only saw one of them. It was in 2004, in the lowe...

After all that snow, who thought we'd see multiple days of 70+ degrees so soon! While we were throwing off our jackets and running gleefully outside like gi...

The Senoi people of the Malaysian peninsula teach their children that, when the child encounters a dangerous animal or monster in their dreams, the child sho...

On Sunday, I drove down Interstate 5 to the Ashland area, in hopes of photographing the elusive Sooty Hairstreak and Sternitsky's Parnassian in the mountains...

It seemed like a crazy idea, but then occasionally, crazy ideas actually work out well. The idea was to make a "rocket run" down to the Pueblo Mountains in ...

Those last 13 species... some of them are not going to come easily. Over the years, I've spent seven days searching for the Gold-hunters Hairstreak in the ...

Sometimes, it doesn't have to be difficult. You know how our expectation that something will be difficult can seem to create that very outcome? Well it tur...

As of June 6, 2018, I have 14 species remaining to photograph in Oregon. If I'm lucky, I will be able to photograph four or five of those this year. The lo...