Below are images compiled in one of the many photo galleries illustrating our blog, Musings From Paradise. Click on any photo and then sweep through the collection (or use your keyboard’s arrow keys). More Albums
"Wild mushrooms on forest floor along trail to coast (© Sooney Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park, OR",
"Forest adjacent to trail to the coast (© Sooney Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park, OR",
"Savanah Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Alexander Dairy, Crescent City, CA",
"Great Blue Heron (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Killdeer (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"American Crow (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Western Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Black Turnstone (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Double-crested Cormorant (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Brandt Cormorant (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Brandt Cormorant (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Surfbird (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Black Oystercatcher (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Wandering Tattler (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Herrmann's Gull (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Battery Point Lighthouse - c. 1856 (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Pacific Golden-Plover (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Pacific Golden-Plover (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Black-bellied Plover (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Pelagic Cormorant (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Common Murre (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"European Starling (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"California Ground Squirrel (© Nick Viani) Crescent City Jetty/breakwater",
"Yellow Warbler (© Nick Viani) Enderts Beach Trail (south of Crescent City, CA)",
"Unidentified Juvenile Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Enderts Beach Trail (south of Crescent City, CA)",
"Western Wood Pewee (© Nick Viani) Cadre Point Trail, Lake Earl Wildlife Area",
"Steller's Jay (© Nick Viani) Cadre Point Trail, Lake Earl Wildlife Area",
"Brown Pelican (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Brown Pelican (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Spotted Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Belted Kingfisher (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Fox Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Song Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"House Finch (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Song Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Anna's Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"White-crowned Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Savannah Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"Savannah Sparrow (© Nick Viani) Ship Ashore, Smith River Estuary, CA",
"American Pipit (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Least Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Semipalmated Plover (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Western Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Western Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Red Knot (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA - NOTE: we saw this species 5 months earlier in Alaska",
"Semipalmated Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"American Crow (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Lesser Yellowlegs (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Wilson's Snipe (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Long-billed Dowitchers (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Hudsonian Godwit (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Western Sandpipers (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Pectoral Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Pectoral Sandpiper (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"Northern Harrier (© Nick Viani) Tolowa Dunes State Park, CA",
"American Goldfinch (© Nick Viani) Alexander Dairy, Crescent City, CA",
"Band-tailed Pigeon (© Nick Viani 5/21) Paradise Lane Backyard birds",
"Rufous Hummingbird (© Nick Viani) Oak Knoll Golf Course Bird Survey 9/8/21",
"American Goldfinch (© Nick Viani) Oak Knoll Golf Course Bird Survey 9/8/21",
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"American Goldfinch (© Nick Viani) Backyard Birds in Paradise.",
"Yellow Warbler - female/juvenile (© Nick Viani) Oak Knoll Golf Course Bird Survey 9/8/21",
"Willow Flycatcher (© Nick Viani) Backyard birds in Paradise, OR",
"Yellow-rumped Warbler - beak variant (© Nick Viani) Deschutes River, Dillon Falls Trail",
"Yellow-rumped Warbler - beak variant (© Nick Viani) Deschutes River, Dillon Falls Trail",
"Domestic Cat (© Nick Viani) North Mountain Park - animal did not appear to have a collar",
"Yellow-rumped Warbler (© Nick Viani) Birding the TID ditch",
"Lesser Goldfinch (© Nick Viani) Backyard Birds in Paradise.",
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"Trail to the beach (© Sooney Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park",
"Nick on the Beach (© Sooney Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park",
"Beach detail (© Sooney Viani) Carl Washburn Memorial State Park",
"Siltcoos River Estuary (© Sooney Viani) Lagoon Campground, Wax Myrtle Trail",