[obol] new bird in SE Or.

[Larry Cottrell]

My husband has been seeing a new bird in the yard for several days. Each time he would see it I would miss it. Well this morning the bird sat in the tree for a few minutes. It is a male Western Tanager. We had them as yard birds in Klamath but there were lots of trees. Here we have two mature trees. I hope it stays around.

We still have our Yellow Warbler in the yard. The white Yellowheaded Blackbird is still in residence too. We had a funny thing happen to our flock of pigeons today. My husband was feeding when the flock got panicked and took off. He watched for a Falcon to come out of the sky- no results. The more he watched -he saw a Snipe was harassing the flock. It chased one down the creek and had most of the flock in total panic.

Karen Cottrell
in true SE Or.
south of Burns Jct.
in Malheur Co.
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