[obol] Eugene Green Heron and Kite

[Don DeWitt]

OBOL,
     Crossing the DeFazio footbridge across the Willamatte River a little after noon today, I heard an odd bird noise, a sort of yelping squawk.  Down near the river a REDTAILED HAWK and an adult GREEN HERON were just parting ways.  I think the heron had evaded an attack just before I looked.  The heron settled down and perched briefly on a mostly submerged log, near shore.  The hawk flew up and then off toward downtown.  A little later, out over the former dump site in east Alton Baker Park, I saw a kiting WHITE-TAILED KITE.
      (Earlier, on Skinner Butte, I had had no luck finding the Mountain Chickadees reported yesterday.)
     Don DeWitt, Eugene 
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