Wednesday, August 1, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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PHOTO PROVIDED
Studies from “a morning of observations” at Pine Meadow Ranch will hang
at Sisters Art Works through August and most of September.
Friday, August 3
through Sunday, August 5!
Ranch ‘observations’
produce exhibit
How does light filter
down through leaves to
Whychus Creek? How do
you record how an old barn
door has opened every day
for decades?
Kathy Deggendorfer
invited artists to join her early
on July 23 at The Roundhouse
Foundation headquarters at
Pine Meadow Ranch to par-
ticipate in a morning of obser-
vations. Those observations
produced a variety of artistic
studies — now on display to
the Sisters public.
From a single cable
draped over a fence post to
long views over fields to the
mountains, these marks on
paper represent a few hours of
time in one day in one place.
“7.23.18 Pine Meadow
Ranch” is an exhibit of 13
diverse studies from 13 art-
ists at Sisters Art Works, 204
W. Adams Ave. in Sisters,
from August 1 to September
26, weekdays from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
Flycatching from atop a
100-foot snag on the shoul-
ders of Mt. Jefferson and
then soaring another 200-
300 feet for a buggy meal,
the Lewis’ woodpecker’s
[Melanerpes lewis] aerial
maneuvers are stunning.
Adding colors from irides-
cent green, black, red and
white, the Lewis’ wood-
pecker is an outstanding
resident of Central Oregon
and the Cascades.
The bird is named after
Meriwether Lewis, who first
described it in 1805 during
his sojourn with William
Clark through the Northwest
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
The Lewis’ woodpecker.
Territories.
Nesting in previously
used woodpecker holes in
snags, the five to nine white
eggs hatch in 12-16 days.
The chicks are completely
featherless and will not
leave the nest for 28-34 days
and will continue to be fed
by the parents for approxi-
mately 60 more days.
Lewis’ woodpeckers feed on
insects until fall when many
migrate to southern Oregon
and California where they
begin to collect and store
acorns and other nuts and
grains for the winter.
Unfortunately their pop-
ulations have declined 72
percent from 1970-2014,
leading to a listing of seri-
ous concern on the Yellow
Watch List. Two factors
have contributed heavily
to this decline: loss
of habitat (massive
clear-cutting), and increas-
ing starling populations who
occupy nesting holes. 30-40
years ago Western Oregon
and Washington had signifi-
cant populations, however
now have almost zero nest-
ing Lewis’ woodpecker.
A group of woodpeck-
ers is referred to as a
“gatling,” “a descent,” or a
“drumming.”
To view more images
of Lewis’s wookpeck-
ers, visit www.abirdsings
becauseithasasong.com/
recent-journeys/.
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