[obol] Harney County Notes

[Wayne & Patty Bowers]

Good Morning:

 

Our first yellow warbler arrived today along with some lovely weather. It
was happily gleaning bugs in the chokecherries when I heard, then observed
it. May 8th is about the average arrival date here at our place 5 miles west
of Hines. The earliest record we have here for YEWA is May 2nd. I just noted
that we saw a calliope hummingbird on May 9th in 1997. Guess I better get
the hummingbird feeder out right away.

 

We've been away for some time, so our notes are a bit sketchy. Here are a
few items from the last few days:

 

The usual sparrows are around. White-crowns are dwindling in numbers.
Brewers', lark, and vespers are evident. A golden-crowned sparrow or two
were here for a couple days, first sighted on May 4.

 

A small group of Franklin's gulls flew over on Sunday and a fair number of
cliff swallows also appeared that day.

 

I saw my first two male Cassin's finches this morning, but they could have
easily been here earlier and we would have missed them.

 

Another item of note - the tree frogs were calling from our new pond for the
first time last night. What a joyful sound!

 

Nuf for now. Have a great day.

 

Patty

 

PS A male black-headed grosbeak just arrived while I was typing this note.

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