Stumptown Magazine

photo-album: A passing hailstorm #pdx #hailstorm #downtown

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:51:28 -0400

photo-album:

A passing hailstorm #pdx #hailstorm #downtown

Oh wow, gimmie.

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:06:29 -0500

Oh wow, gimmie.

Hell yes.

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:05:31 -0500

Hell yes.

nevver: All it ever does is rain

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:15:27 -0400

nevver:

All it ever does is rain

cityofbridges: Mornings #instapdx #trimet (Taken with...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:58:55 -0400

cityofbridges:

Mornings #instapdx #trimet (Taken with Instagram)

Whoa.

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:15:15 -0400

Whoa.

concussedkillface: Post-Racial America: Where young white children on Mississippi Avenue run up to...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:01:16 -0400

concussedkillface: Post-Racial America: Where young white children on Mississippi Avenue run up to...

New issue of Tin House peep that shit.

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:00:29 -0400

New issue of Tin House peep that shit.

buchino: I rode my bike from Portland to Pacific City (104...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:35:35 -0400

buchino:

I rode my bike from Portland to Pacific City (104 miles in one 8-hour, 45-minute day) in May.

Love that ride.

the-rza: Tree Flowers of Forest, Park, and Street Walter E....

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:01:47 -0400

the-rza:

Tree Flowers of Forest, Park, and Street Walter E. Rogers, Olga A. Smith

laurenbee: #CurrentlyOnRepeat

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:33:20 -0400

laurenbee:

#CurrentlyOnRepeat

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. “Times boy and bicycle.” One of...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:51:30 -0400

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. “Times boy and bicycle.” One of the winners of a Washington Times subscription-selling contest and his prize, a Mead Ranger bike.

kellebeans: fuckyeahportland: http://www.wordstockfestival.com ...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:49:50 -0400

kellebeans:

fuckyeahportland:

http://www.wordstockfestival.com

I want to go to this but I have no wordy friends and I hate going to things alone.

You should go. The speakers alone are worth it. And it is one of the better events to go to alone. You’ll have something to talk about - and probably something in common - with anyone you’d meet there.

waytoomuchportland: Sellwood This is the best. hugs all...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:08:08 -0400

waytoomuchportland:

Sellwood

This is the best. hugs all around.

lucyford: stumptownmag: eyefivestyle: Chapman...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:45:40 -0400

lucyford:

stumptownmag:

eyefivestyle:

Chapman Swifts

The Chapman Swifts are part of a migratory population of Vaux’s Swifts that roost seasonally in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is North America’s largest concentration of Vaux’s Swifts.^[1]

Every evening from mid-August to mid-October, thousands of swifts gather in the sky over the school shortly before sunset. Count estimates of 1,700 to 35,000 swifts have been reported. Shortly after sunset, over a period of 10 to 30 minutes, they fly into the top of the brick chimney (constructed c.1925) to roost on the interior surface until they depart at sunrise.^[2] The school is on the birds’ migratory route to their wintering sites in southern Central America andVenezuela.^[3]

The swifts attract several predators, such as Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks, as well as hundreds to thousands^[4]^[2] of human spectators.^[5]

Last year I watched a hawk swoop down and grab a swift just as the flock was descending into the chimney. Suddenly, the whole flock of swifts stopped their descent and began chasing the falcon through the evening sky - just a massive black swarm of birds pursuing a single falcon for I’d guess ten solid minutes before reforming their cyclonic descending pattern to enter the chimney.

So. Don’t fuck with a flock of swifts.

True story. This is an awe-inspiring thing to witness and damn near impossible to capture in a photograph.

Ha. I just realized I said hawk in one sentence and falcon in the next. Because I’m not sure what the hell it was. LARGE MEAN BIRD. Nature, right?

eyefivestyle: Chapman Swifts The Chapman Swifts are part of a...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:10:11 -0400

eyefivestyle:

Chapman Swifts

The Chapman Swifts are part of a migratory population of Vaux’s Swifts that roost seasonally in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is North America’s largest concentration of Vaux’s Swifts.^[1]

Every evening from mid-August to mid-October, thousands of swifts gather in the sky over the school shortly before sunset. Count estimates of 1,700 to 35,000 swifts have been reported. Shortly after sunset, over a period of 10 to 30 minutes, they fly into the top of the brick chimney (constructed c.1925) to roost on the interior surface until they depart at sunrise.^[2] The school is on the birds’ migratory route to their wintering sites in southern Central America andVenezuela.^[3]

The swifts attract several predators, such as Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks, as well as hundreds to thousands^[4]^[2] of human spectators.^[5]

Last year I watched a hawk swoop down and grab a swift just as the flock was descending into the chimney. Suddenly, the whole flock of swifts stopped their descent and began chasing the falcon through the evening sky - just a massive black swarm of birds pursuing a single falcon for I’d guess ten solid minutes before reforming their cyclonic descending pattern to enter the chimney.

So. Don’t fuck with a flock of swifts.

nightblindness: hokendauqua: Portland, Oregon looking...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:10:03 -0400

nightblindness:

hokendauqua:

Portland, Oregon

looking west

1898

i love my city <3

Oh wicked.

Use an umbrella.

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:18:57 -0400

Use an umbrella.

A public service announcement.

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:34:41 -0400

A public service announcement.

Great.

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:24:02 -0400

Great.