[obol] Another bee swarm, some birds--Portland Area

[Tom McNamara]

OBOL

About 1:30 or so I was walking the path at Wapato Greenway Access on Sauvie 
Island and found, like Barry McKenzie in Eugene, a lifer---a bee swarm.  
They looked to be either Honey Bees or possibly Mason bees, they  seemed 
kinda big.  I'll give it  a try on directions:  if one were to circuit the 
lake in a clockwise fashion eventually the path  comes very close to the 
Multnomah Channel and there is a steep drop off of the embankment.  Past 
this spot a little way, I found the swarm just a few feet off the path at 
about head height on the left (channel) side of the path.

As for birds: a late Golden-crowned sparrow, bunch of Black-headed 
Grosbeaks, some Bullock's Orioles, Swainson's thrush, W. Wood Pewee, calling 
Virginia rails and Sora,  Wood ducks, common yellowthroats, orange-crowned 
warblers ....

good birding, beeing, being

Tom

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