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8 Wednesday, March 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Sisters salutes... " Ann Richardson wrote: <Sisters Trails Alliance sends a HUGE thank-you to Three Creeks Brewing Co. for host- ing the recent Toast the Trails event and donating fabulous craft beer for our support- ers. As all of you who put on events know, Three Creeks is massively generous to this community, donating beer, cash, and great merchan- dise to support wide-rang- ing causes. STA is grateful for their continued support. Many thanks also to the com- munity of trail-users and trail- lovers who made the event a great success.= " Actor Nathan Woodworth earned honors from Maverick Movie Awards as Best Supporting Actor for the film <Tutu Grande.= Southern Shorts Awards also presented Woodworth an Award of Excellence for Individual Achievement in Acting for the same film. The Sisters-born-and-raised actor also recently portrayed a dead robber on NCIS. PHOTO PROVIDED Tales from a Sisters Naturalist by Jim Anderson The TVs are on their way! In spite of all the snow and cold, turkey vultures are on their way north to their summer haunts. While air temperature does play a role in the movements of TVs and other birds, it9s really the sun9s relationship to the horizon and the amount of daylight that controls their migration calendar. If you see a turkey vulture soaring overhead, perched in a tree, on a pole or slurp- ing up road-killed deer guts, and it9s wearing a patagial tag, please send me an email ASAP: jimnaturalist@gmail. com. Wildlife biologists in Canada are doing a huge TV study, trying to find out when and where they take themselves south in winter and how widespread they are in summer in Canada. Those patagial wing tags are very noticeable, and easy to read, and the number and color can be/must be reported accurately. After you have notified me that one flew over the cuckoo nest, google <Bird Banding Laboratory.= The first prompt ed Bird you get will be <Banded Encounter Report.= = Open that and follow your r nose, lly be at and you will eventually the page where you can tell the banding lab what you9ve ys you seen. In a few days icate of will receive a certificate appreciation from the lab for ting and sending in your sighting information. y cause You will probably a scientist in Canada to leap d shout, off his or her seat and ry from <Hey, we got a recovery Sisters, Oregon! How about that!= That in turn will cause a whole bunch of scientists in the program to start rethink- ing what they thought was going on with TVs in Canada, and the U.S. as well. There may be a relation- ship with the TVs that visit Oregon in summer that could be related to climate change. Numbers of birders over in western Oregon are seeing TVs today in places where we usually don9t see them until late February. For exam- ple, on Tuesday, January 29, at about 10:30 a.m., a birder in Toledo reported seeing a TV. Then, my old pal Chuck Gates, retired science teacher from Ochoco High School and a long-time birder, reported photographing a TV at Fern Ridge Reservoir in Lane County, also in The Swamp. On that same day another birder in Eugene put this up on the Oregon Birders On Line (OBOL) website: <That9s near a site that has been a winter roost for maybe 15 years. Toledo is probably an early migrant, but there are enough wintering in SW Oregon these days that it may PHOTO BY TIM KADLECEK An adult Turkey Vulture wearing a patagial wing marker. not have come far.= So, perhaps not all the TVs that breed, eat dead sheep, cows and road-kills in the Willamette Valley go off and spend the winter near Baja, Mexico and the Imperial Valley in Central California. The birders who are vital to the science of ornithol- ogy are the ones who keep accurate records. 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