Wednesday, May 27, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
B u l l o c k 9s O r i o l e s
(Icterus bullock) breed in
riparian and open wood-
lands and favor areas where
the trees are large and
spaced well apart or in iso-
lated clumps. They often
nest in sycamores, cotton-
woods, willows, and decid-
uous oaks. They eat insects
and other
arthropods,
as well as
fruit and
n e c t a r.
T h e y
glean
insects
from
leaves,
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
Bullock’s Oriole.
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branches and trunks; they
also pluck insects from spi-
der webs or from the air, and
take ripe fruit from bushes
and trees.
Bullock9s Orioles use
a method called <gaping=
to extract juice from fruit,
and also sometimes from
tough-skinned caterpillars.
Thrusting their closed bills
through the skin and into the
flesh of the fruit or animal,
they then pry their bills open
inside and lap up the pool-
ing juices with their brushy
tongues.
The female weaves the
ne
nest, but the male may
assist, with one partner
working on the inside and
other outside, bringing nest
material. The project can
take up to 15 days to com-
plete. The nest hangs from
a b branch like a sack and is
nea
neatly woven from fibers
such as hair, twine, grasses,
or wool. It9s lined with soft
ma
materials such as feathers
or the <cotton= from cotton-
wo
woods or willows. Three to
seven bluish eggs are incu-
b bated for 11 days and the
chicks fledge in 14 days.
This oriole was named
af
after William Bullock, an
English amateur natural-
ist, in 1827. A group of ori-
ole
oles are collectively known
as a <pitch= or a <split= of
ori
orioles.
For more Bullock9s
Oriole photos visit http://
abirdsingsbecauseithasa
song.com/recent-journeys.
MEMORIAL DAY:
Aviator part of
Greatest Generation
Continued from page 1
14, 1945, while on combat
patrol, along with Lt. j. g. E.
Hatfield, they encountered
and attacked two Mitsubishi
G4M bombers. Hatfield9s
guns jammed and Devereaux
continued his attack and
successfully destroyed one
of the enemy aircraft. He
followed it down until it
exploded into the water.
Upon returning to the
USS Shangri La, his tail
hook failed; he slammed on
his brakes and crashed into
the barrier. His plane flipped
up on its nose and right
wing, and balanced there in a
vertical position. Unhurt and
able to climb down from his
damaged fighter, he was met
with an order to report to the
Admiral.
Reporting as ordered,
Vice Admiral John McCain
offered his hand and said,
<Great job, Devereaux, You
are one for one, eh!=
Of the 1,391 sorties flown
on that day by Task Force
38, he was the only one that
shot down an enemy plane
over the carrier armada.
At war9s end, having
flown 40 combat missions,
he was awarded the Air
Medal with three Gold Stars.
His final flight was over
the battleship Missouri
in Tokyo harbor during
the signing of the surren-
der ceremony. Leon was
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<I9ve been doing every-
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Christensen. <But it9s so
expensive that it meant my
family of six sharing one bed-
room at my mom9s house. So,
we were forced to move, and
our daughter now spends over
an hour commuting to school
each day. Next year, thanks to
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school.=
<As a single dad, I work
hard day in and day out to pro-
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something other than apart-
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Leon Deveraux (front row, right), a native of Bend, flew combat missions
in The Pacific Theater of World War II.
released from active duty
and returned home to Bend,
and remained in the Naval
Reserves with occasional
weekend duty at Sand Point
NAS, Washington through
1949.
In June of 1946 Leon
married Marian Mowery and
they raised three children.
He worked for Brooks-
Scanlon Lumber for 38
years, ultimately serving as
their controller.
He continues to be active
in politics and serves on
community boards. He was
elected as Bend9s mayor
in 1968 and was the Grand
Marshall of Bend9s 2017
Veterans Day parade. He
was honored by our Central
Oregon Honor Flight with
an all-expense-paid trip to
Washington, DC to visit the
World War II Memorial.
Sisters veterans hailed
Leon Devereaux as a patriot,
a war hero, outstanding
citizen and a tribute to the
<Greatest Generation.= This
coming June, Leon and his
wife will celebrate 74 years
of marriage.