Author Archives: Stewart
Hire a world class naturalist / teacher for events
It would be hard to find a naturalist that knows the diversity of organisms in western Washington and the Pacific Northwest better than Stewart. Stewart also knows nature of the Northeast US, where he grew up and started his intense nature studies, quite well, and has a good familiarity with the global natural community. In … Continue reading
See the Seattle Times piece on my work!
See this piece in the Seattle Times – links to a video of me demonstrating my owl hoots!
The first 2013 butterflies have started flying!
On a sunny, relatively warm, Saturday, March 9th I saw my first butterfly of the season. It was a Mourning Cloak at a small West Seattle Park, Orchard St Ravine, a pocket of nature hidden a little ways below the top of High Point hill. The Mourning Cloak – Nymphalis antiopa is one of a … Continue reading
The Ravens are back at Lincoln Park in West Seattle for maybe the fourth year!
While they have always been common in the mountains, and beyond the urban and suburbanized areas, prior to maybe 9 years ago, when one or two Ravens started showing up in Seward Park, in my decades of observation, I never knew of any Ravens showing up within the urban and suburban Seattle area. I imagine … Continue reading
See the Salamanders in the UW Daily photo gallery of the walk I led for their biology class!
Link to the photo gallery done for the UW daily on the “Salamander Love Night” program I gave for Adam Leache’s Biology 180 class: http://dailyuw.com/photos/galleries/2012/feb/16/breaking-down-biology/ and Professor Adam Leache’s write-up in his Leache Lab evolutionary Herpetology web-site: http://faculty.washington.edu/leache/wordpress/2012/02/breaking-down-biology-at-the-daily/
Don’t miss the romantic salamanders on Valentine’s night!
No Valentine? Come meet other people who share a love of nature! Got a partner? You can get worked up by joining our group of voyeurs watching sexy salamanders on their big night of the year! While this program may be “x” rated, all ages are welcome to our Valentine’s night edition of “Salamander Love Night”! – … Continue reading
Seattle Times article – I worked with reporter on about our Salamanders
Check out this great article that I have been working on with Lynda Mapes, the Seattle Times nature beat reporter. It is on the 4 salamander species at Camp Long, West Seattle, 2 of which that breed in the pond on or about Valentines Night that I have been and will be showing, and teaching the … Continue reading
The Barred Owl – A Successful, New Immigrant Species Upsets the Ecological Apple Cart
Before 1946 no Barred Owls had ever been recorded west of the Rocky Mountains and then the first Barred Owl was recorded in British Columbia. By 1973 the first Barred Owls – Strix varia – had been recorded in Washington State. Up until the mid 1990′s they still had a spotty distribution and were not … Continue reading
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Stewart Wechsler is a Seattle-based nature guide, ecological consultant and botanist. Hooked on nature since childhood, Stewart loves to share his passion for native plants, animals and their ecosystems with people of all ages.
