Image titled: Stranger in Town.
April 2017
Photographer Neal Maine, PacificLight Images.
Just in time for BLOOM, an exhibition, at Fairweather’s.
A Baltimore Oriole visiting a backyard in Seaside, Oregon!
Image backstory:
Once again, one Baltimore Oriole, a stranger to the North coast area, usually not a visitor to the West, has appeared, again in the spring of 2017, to the same flowering tree in the Seaside area, first visited in the spring of 2016.
Fun facts:
One of the most brilliantly colored songbirds in the east, flaming orange and black, sharing the heraldic colors of the coat of arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore.
Widespread east of the Great Plains.
Baltimore Orioles are often very common in open woods.
Visits flowers for nectar.
http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/baltimore-oriole
Baltimore Oriole migration map.
Open woods, riverside groves, elms, shade trees. Breeds in deciduous or mixed woodland, generally in open woods or edges rather than interior of dense forest. May be common in trees in towns. Often favors elms. Winters mostly in the tropics around forest edge and semi-open country.
Rarely west of the Rocky Mountains!!!
Neal Maine/ PacificLight Images
NATURE’S TRAILS
A limpet creeps up a wave-washed rock, following the rise of the tide. A salmon follows ancient watershed trails to its natal stream. An otter travels along its living trap line for crabs in the estuary to crayfish up side creeks. A vole tunnels into the soft sponge on the forest floor. In the treetops, in the forest, across the land, in the water, and in the air, all become a living slate for NATURE’S TRAILS. This tracery of interwoven trails are unsigned but indelible to generations of travelers.
THE NEXT FRONTIER, OUR OWN BACKYARD
Humans: We take pictures, walks, deep breaths, memories, ride on waves, water, timber, in habitat that used to belong to other trail makers. We thought we could never catch all the salmon, never cut all the big trees, and never pollute the ocean. In our hubris, we thought we could make our own trails. With renewed humility, we are learning how to share this place, to live together with our partner trail makers. PacificLight Images celebrates this partnership as we use our images to inspire others to honor nature’s trails in OUR OWN BACKYARD. –Neal Maine
Proceeds to support North Coast Land Conservancy, NCLC.
Please visit http://www.fairweatherhouseandgallery.com …artists …Neal Maine for more images and info
And, too, the 2016 famous Baltimore Oriole photo by Neal Maine.
