Wednesday, August 29, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
Gliding across Oregon’s
central sagebrush, the black-
billed magpie is searching
for any scrap of food; be it
insects, carrion, birds eggs
or berries.
Cousins to the jay and
crow families, the mag-
pie also uses its sense of
smell to find food, which
is unusual within the avian
kingdom.
They are monogamous,
and use they same nest for
many years. The nest can
take almost 40 days to con-
struct and becomes a huge
pile of twigs and is occa-
sionally used by other birds,
often owls.
Up to nine greenish-
gray eggs are laid, and the
male feeds the female while
she incubates for approxi-
mately 18 days and the
young leave the nest in 3-4
weeks and join other broods
to learn how to fend for
themselves. Many moons
ago, the black-billed magpie
would follow Indian buffalo
hunts and feed on the
leftovers. They also engage
in “anting,” where they
rub ants over their plum-
age, which may may act as a
preening oil; this behavior is
not fully understood.
A group of magpies is
referred to as a “shoal,” a
“charm,” or a “parliament”
of magpies.
To view more images
of the black-billed mag-
pies, visit abirdsingsbe
causeithasasong.com/
recent-journeys.
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Council also requested per-
haps more citations being
issued to hopefully slow the
speeders. The sheriff’s office
has contended in the past that
they try to use speed enforce-
ment through the issuance of
warnings as an educational
tool.
Garrison brought with him
accurate numbers for the pre-
vious three months to replace
the former incomplete data.
Ticket and warning statistics
for May through July 2018
were: May – 12 warnings,
five tickets; June – five warn-
ings, 16 tickets; and July – 21
warnings, 17 tickets. Garrison
indicated that currently they
are using a layered approach
within the city limits with a
speed trailer, the Community
Action Target team (officers
on bicycles), and this week
there should be a patrol car
parked around town.
Over Labor Day weekend
there will be traffic enforce-
ment efforts for four days.
Ryan indicated he erred
on the side of transparency
in his quote to The Nugget.
He explained, “Our look-
ing at a separate police force
has nothing to do with these
issues. It’s something that
is going to come out of our
visioning process, and I think
the Council’s going to decide
whether we need to study that
and whether it’s time to look
at it and strategize all that, but
we are happy.”
Sisters will continue to
contract with the DCSO for
law-enforcement services in
the city. Most people agree
that as Sisters continues to
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grow, adequate and appro-
priate law enforcement is an
important topic that deserves
study and planning for future
needs.
“I think we owe it to our-
selves when we do the stra-
tegic plan to look at that …
We’re not going to rush into
it. We’re going to do our
homework. It’ll be a process.
I just want to be sure we’re on
the record on that. Nobody on
this council has ever said to
me we need to rush into doing
this,” Ryan said.
Nelson stated, “It’s an
absolute honor to provide
public safety to the commu-
nity of Sisters. That’s just
something that is the sher-
iff’s priority.” He concluded,
“I support whatever decision
you make and whatever direc-
tion you go. When we retire
patrol cars we will give them
to Sisters at a fair price to help
you jumpstart a department.”
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PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
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