Tamara Enz

The Road not Taken Enough is the road I most often want to be on. Join me?

Long lines of eiders hurrying

By Tamara Enz on August 21, 2018

Alaska, Barrow, Cooper Island, The Arctic Circle, Black Guillemot, August, On the Road

Part 25, summer winding down 22 Aug George didn’t make our radio call this morning but called Dave yesterday and said he didn’t think it was going to work to get me […]

Weigh and measure, measure and weigh

By Tamara Enz on August 14, 2018

Part 24, plumb tuckered out 17 Aug Back to Cooper – gray day with passing showers, and mist, but pretty mild temp and little wind until this evening. Now it seems to […]

The grim and the glorious – the days of August on Cooper

By Tamara Enz on August 7, 2018

Alaska, Cooper Island, Barrow, The Arctic Circle, Svalbard, wild, Black Guillemots,

Part 23, the dog days of summer 14 August 2000 What a grim day. I went through the whole colony, nest site by nest site. There are many dead and dying chicks; […]

A post-storm interlude for a recent storm of another form

By Tamara Enz on July 31, 2018

Ashland, Oregon, bobcat, wildcat, animals, wild, oak, oak woodland, I live in a bird blind

Meet Bob and Cat Several Steller’s Jays screaming their most aggressive intruder calls alerted me to these two young bobcats hanging about in the trees around my house. Despite the storm of […]

The eye of the storm

By Tamara Enz on July 24, 2018

Part 22, A storm is coming in 9 Aug The wind finally dropped off this evening. It was strong earlier in the day – 30-35mph. WooHoo! I spent a lot of the […]

Arctic time fluidity

By Tamara Enz on July 17, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

Alaska, Cooper Island, The Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Barrow, North Slope, Birds, ice, ice floes, summer

Part 21, Cooper time – night divides the day 5 Aug I half dragged myself out of bed this morning at 0630. Had just gotten my pants and socks on and was […]

The first sunset of summer

By Tamara Enz on July 10, 2018

I started this Cooper Island series back in February 2018 with a post from 29 July 2000, Sensory Deprivation, that chronologically fits here. Part 20, another trip abroad 31 July 2000 I just […]

Where the songs of summer lead

By Tamara Enz on July 3, 2018

Alaska, Arctic Ocean, The Arctic Circle, Barrow, climate change

Part 19, the songs of summer 25 Aug July I am now paying for the nice weather I so cheerily wrote about the other day. It rained most of the night and […]