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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.
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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. They are
the Citizen Scientists who
furnish data that helps the
scientific community under-
stand the life history of birds.
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