[obol] Common Goldeneye breeding in Oregon

[Alan Contreras]

This is probably the time to mention that Dave Irons and I have been sent
photos showing a female and brood of Common Goldeneyes from a small lake
near Tollgate in the northern Blue Mountains.  They have apparently bred
there twice in recent years, and many observers from the Pendleton area have
seen both male and female in summer.

So it is time to rethink some of those can't-be-breeding summer birds.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am
horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human.  It is
always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept
this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes
me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed;
that they gamble--yes, gamble--with a whole part of their life and their
so-called 'vital interests'."

Albert Camus, 1937

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