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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 23, 1958 Diary Jgggrf of a mZ, Bird Watchei W " 11 ...... i Salurday, Fab. IS In spite of the rainy day I took a group of young people to Crater Lake park for a snow trip and found it an interest ing experience. There was officially 171 inches on the ground at headquarters. The road was like a canyon with steep, white walls. At headquarters, though, we could hike around a little and the kids finally found a place to toboggan. As for me, I saw some birds in the area of residences for the park personnel. There was a flock of mountain chickadees, as lively and cheery as any place, and with them one brown creeper. Also a gray jay flying into a garage and poking around for any food that might have been thrown out. One thin we noticed was that wherever there was a hole in the deep snow it was a beautiful light blue in color. I suppose this is from the refraction of the light, something like the blue of the sky. Sunday, Feb. IS ' My friend, Mrs. P. B., called me up about some finches that come to her place. Later I went up to look at them. We tried to figure out whether they were purple or Cassin's finches but had a hard time doing it. The distinctions are I difficult to determine in the field. Maybe there Were some of each. Mrs. B. has found that pears make a fine bird food even if they are spoiling. Monday. Ftb. 17 For the usual Monday morning trio with J.H. we went first northwest of Central Point out Scenic ave., then turned on Willow Creek rd., across the highway and on down Tolo rd. to Gold Ray dam. Then we back-tracked a little and went ud Kirtland rd. to Table Rock rd., and Bybee Bridge, then home via three or four small ponds. On a three hour trip i we identified 43 species, which is pretty good for any season, but that is one of our best territories. Our best find was a pigeon hawk, the size and shape of a sparrow hawk but with different coloration. They are rare enough that we consider ourselves lucky to lind one or two a year. The prettiest birds we saw were buffleheads on one f th nonris the males so Dure a white with just a little contrasting black. They disappear quickly in the water with the skill of the best feathered divers. In the afternoon I got out the old lawn mower and mowed iTona of our lawns. The wind was so strong it blew the grass -away and I didn't have to rake, borne or tne omer lawns : needed it, too, but they had to wait. -Tuaidav. Fab. 18 , - Acain the wind was strong. I noticed in the late after- noon when the robins passed over on their way to the roost north of Phoenix, they flew low to the ground, evidently to : escape the strongest gusts. Often they fly quite high in the nky. While great numbers of robins use this roost along Bear l creek I think that others must stay in local areas, because I -ae or hear one every morning when I step outside in the ' early dawn. I still don t hear them singing their early morn ing song, though. ' 5 Wednesday, Fab. 19 r Mrs. P. B. called again and said she had settled in her rmind that she had both Cassin's and purple finches. She "could see them both together and tell the difference in size -as well as markings. I accept her judgment. She has all the -necessary books and a fine place to study them. X A fox sparrow was singing in our willows. I have seen :one a good many times on the place but this is the first time .I have heard one sing while on its winter feeding grounds. "Thursday, Feb. 20 A meadowlark came and sang on the highest branch of -our big oak tree. Underenath in the branches about a yard away was another meadowlark. It wasn't hard to guess that this was a female, although they look alike. When he flew away she flew with him. It seems to me that the beautiful .song and plumage of birds presupposes that the females have an appreciation of the beautiful. Perhaps she enjoyed that fine song even more than I did. Friday, Fab. 21 , . As I stepped outside at 6:40 a.m. I heard the loud, clear long of a robin. The next time I stepped out, after breakfast, I heard the first cooing of a dove. This is an even surer sign of spring. Other birds will often sing in the winter, but I have never heard a dove coo until spring. As the poetry of the Bible expresses it: "Lo, the winter is past, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land." Film on Heartbeat Shown at Meeting Members of the Southern Oregon Osteopathic Physici ans View Heart association saw the movie, "Disorders of the Heartbeat," at a recent meeting. The flim correlated the au dible heart beat patterns of the normal and abnormal heart with electr ocardiographic tracing and diagramatic an atomical - physiological heart activity. The film was made possible by a grant from the Wyeth Laboratories and was shown at the Hawthorne Os teopathic clinic. Certificates Are Conferred on Four Salem The Oregon Ap prenticeship Council has con ferred the state certificate of completion in skilled trades upon Joseph B. Kidwell, Don ald D. Rasmussen, Allen W. Rettman and William L. Rob inson all of Medford. Kidwell, Rasmussen and Rettman received their jour neyman rank as carpenters and Robinson completed his training as a dental tech nician. Candidates for the journey man certificates are trained on the job in skill standards which are developed by labor and management representa tives of the particular trade. Average training period of apprentices is four years, the length of apprenticeship vary ing with the extent of skills required in the trade. Train ing is supplemented in night classes on trade subjects. The basking shark of the Pacific coast, which drifts along the surface, sometimes measures 30 feet or more in length. Dahlias, though named aft er Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl, were first used as food by ancient Mexicans. The starchy substance, inulin. Preston Takes Over Managers Duties Ashland W. G. Preston, former salesman with radio station KMED, Medford, has assumed duties as manager of the Ashland Furniture com pany, he has announced. Preston, who lives at 1417 South Ivy st., Medford, as sumed the job Feb. 1. The company is owned by H. L. Bush, formerly of Bush Home Furnishings in . Medford. The cable car was invented in San Francisco in 1873 by Andrew S. Hallidie, who couldn't bear to see horses struggling up the city's steep hills. Local Man's Son Named to CARE Job New York Wallace J. Campbell, one of the original planners of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Everywhere ,has been named a vice-president of CARE. Campbell, who has been as sociated with the Cooperative League since 1934, also served as chairman of the CARE ex ecutive committee. He repre sents the Cooperative League on the CARE board of direc tors as an alternate to Mur ray D. Lincoln as president. The CARE board is made up of 26 member agencies. Campbell's father, A. D. Campbell, and a brother, K. S. Campbell, both live in Medford, Ore. Another broth, er, Don J. Campbell, is super intendent of schools at Park, rose. Ore., and a sister, Mrs. Harris Berg, lives in Salem. REMEMBER! FREE KNITTING CLASSES AT MANN'S DEPT. STORE v EVERY TUESDAY 1:00 TO 5:00 P.M. JUNE MILESTONE, INSTRUCTOR Lower Floor To Start in 6H Sanitary Service Gold Hill Pat Fahey of Pat's Sanitary Service, Grants Pass, was in Gold Hill last week contacting local resi dent concerning the new garbage service which will begin Wednesday, March 5. He plana to be in Gold Hill on Monday, Feb. 24, to call on residents who were not home last week. He stated that in such cases where the man and woman of the home both are working all day, and have not had an opportunity to talk to him about the garbage pickup they may call him collect at GReenwood 9-2391 after 6 p.m. , Fahey has announced that Mrs. Vaughn Whitmore at Whitmore's Variety Store on Second ave.. Gold Hill, will collect payments for Pat's Sanitary Service. He said bills for March and April will be mailed to residents April 1st. He stated garbage fees will be S1.25 or $1.50 per month de pending on whether the pick up service is from the resi dent's premises or from the street or alley. A pick up will bp one 30-gallon can. Bark, a waste product of the lumber iniustry, is now being converted into an un usually effective soil builder in a method developed by Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology. . 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