Goatbells
PNW philosopher hiker with camera working on living better; photos usually mine with OM Sys OM-5 II w/ 12-45 f/4 if hiking / backpacking
- Turkeys and Bad Air goatbells.blog?p=38236 Why people burn with stagnant air beyond me. A 60-degree April-like day on Mt. Pisgah: Turkeys and a lone hunting raptor. #hiking #hikeOregon #birds
- Kumba Without a Mother goatbells.blog?p=38232 As winter continues on in some places and hides in others, good stories are always needed. Sitting around the campfire or the fireplace or the wood stove … what better way to pass the time than a good story? #hiking great thanks to Lilyan Kesteloot.
- Quiet Empty Hardesty and Goodman Creek goatbells.blog?p=38205 two very different hikes from same TH - Hardesty a butt-kicker up / down, and Goodman Creek a rainforest amble up the hill - both remarkably quiet, and not 1 human for duration - ah! #hiking #hikeOregon
- If i didn't see it fly, i'd never find it This flicker can look like a branch so easily ... if i hadn't watch it fly to the tree, ... invisible #birds
- Stagnant Air Still at Pisgah goatbells.blog?p=38192 With the air conditions, wood smoke just sat in the valley to both the east and west. Looking to the east and Diamond Peak, we should NOT be able to see rocks – the terrible OR snow pack so far in 2026. #hiking #hikeOregon
- more sun bathing birds in cold willamette valley every bird wanted the sunniest perch #birds
- Cold Pisgah Morning goatbells.blog?p=38147 In the 20s with sun sometimes and thick cold fog mostly. Deer, coyotes, birds and solitude ... a carbon karma rational hike for January in Willamette Valley. #hiking #hikeOregon
- Frost to sun at the park goatbells.blog?p=38133 After so much cold fog soup in the valley, when the sun pops out, everybody wants the sunniest perch - can't blame 'em #birds #hikeOregon
- Ridgeline Fog Soup goatbells.blog?p=38112 thick dripping fog below and clear skies above (sometimes). a perfect OR winter hike closes to town in January #hiking #hikeOregon
- Crows soaring like hawks ... yesterday, i watch two crows soaring the updrafts like hawks ... at first, i thought they were hawks. I have never seen crows soar for this long and as a pair - a couple of minutes and no wing flaps anybody else ever faked out by crows? #birds
- Pisgah’s Coyote goatbells.blog?p=38101 Frost in shadows, sunlight and blue skies ... a good day to be on trail .... and a coyote slipped thru the meadow below me. distance far for my 12-45mm lens, but you can see it #hiking #hikeOregon #MtPisgah
- Data Geek Special goatbells.blog?p=38060 5 years of hiking miles and 2 years of carbon karma tracking ... time to look to 2026! #hiking #hikeOregon
- hawkes, eagles and kestrels along the road ... the other day, we were driving I-5 Eugene to Salem, OR ... along the way on a very grey overcast day, 23 large hawks, 3 bald eagles and 4 kestrel ... almost all were perched on posts - bad hunting in December? I probably missed equal number #birds
- Frosty Pisgah’s Trees goatbells.blog?p=38043 A cold morning around 30 degrees with possible sunshine after the fog … snow at lower elevations in the foothills, and Ridgeline Trail hiked last week. I decided to head to Mt Pisgah for a solid ramble around the hill. #hiking #hikeOregon
- Building hope after winter solstice! goatbells.blog?p=38035 Ray Bradbury’s, “Action is hope. There is no hope without action.” Or, Greta Thunberg “Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.” #hiking #hikeOregon
- Ridgeline Solstice 25 goatbells.blog?p=38021 Hiking Ridgeline Trail and Spencer Butte has become a Winter Solstice tradition over the last 3-4 years. This year, however, was the worst weather. Gortex top-to-bottom and an umbrella … #hiking #hikeOregon #Oregon
- So strong … A little white breasted chickadee crashed into big window and ended on its back on deck - no movement- I went back 15 minutes later - gone. And no cat either … such strength to come back and patience to not intervene #birds
- just like us humans ... gotta have some friends at the beach
