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Diary M of a ' ffpraT I Bird Watcher yf Saturday, May 17. My wife says she has been hearing wood pewees down by the corner quite often. In fact she heard one several times while we were sitting on our patio eating dessert. I have not heard one for a long time. Apparently the pitch of their voice is beyond my hearing range, although I could probably hear it if I got close enough. Her identification is a good one, though, because a wood pewee is one of those flycatchers that is easier to recognize by voice than by sight. unday. May 18. We took a short drive in the late afternoon of this fine day. A boy had been .telling me about finding some kind of owl near the Mason & Ehrman warehouse, so on our way home we stopped and drove by that area. Sure enough, in a field nearby we saw a burrowing owl. I was glad to find another place where they are resident. Very likely a closer observation would reveal several and they a're , prob ably raising some young in an abandoned gopher hole as is their custom. One reason we are glad to find these picturesque ground owls in another place is that we are afraid they may be crowded out of the field near the new Hoover School where civilization is threatening to engulf them. R. B. Keeps track of the owls there and at last report there were still four or five. . . Monday, May 19. . A morning appointment (which I can't always avoid on this my day off) made it impossible for us to take our usual extended birding trip. However, at the last minute I decided I could spare an hour and a half, so I jumped in the car and scooted out to Hoover lake by myself. There, sitting on the lake very calmly was a handsome western grebe and with it a not quite so handsome but much rarer red necked (Hol bell's) grebe. I looked it up in the Peterson bird guide that I always have with me in the car and studied it at close range with my binoculars. I never had a better view of an unusual bird. Peterson says it is a "rare migrant inland". Gabrielson and Jewett don't have any record of it for this part of the state and apparently no Oregon record for the month of May. When I got back 1 called J. H. and he went out to see it; both grebes were were still there. This wasn't the end of this short trip either. I went on down Corey rd. and then a short distance down Gregory rd. There I think I have located the nesting' area for the tri colored blackbirds. I strongly suspect that they are nesting in the willows and cattails in the draw just north of Gregory rd. I saw a number of them and heard their raucous songs. I hope to go Jjack with rubber boots soon and verify a nesting record for this species in our valley. There is no place like Hoover Lake and the. area near it. I have seen more unusual birds there than any other place in the valley. ' ' ' I yif mk i Tuesday, May 20. I went to Eugene with a friend, starting at 6 in the morn ing. It was a pleasant trip and the weather ideal. After ar riving at Eugene we were kept busy attending the conference sessions that we had gone to attend, except for a short walk 4o a nearby cemetery to see what birds were about. I saw eome pretty ones, taiiagers and black headed grosbeaks, but nothing unusual. Wednesday, May 21. , My hosts in Eugene all went to work or to school by 8 or little after so I had time to take a walk to that wooded cemetery on the hill before the conference sessions began". I iept hearing what I thought was a red eyed vireo, but it iept in the tops of the Douglas fir trees and I was never able to get a view of it. Although I feel fairly sure of the song I decided not to add it to my records because it is so long since i have heard it. I like to record all the birds I identify but REV. GEORGE TROBOUGH Assigned lo Idaho Minister Assigned To Idaho Church The Rev. George A. Tro bough, associate minister at First Methodist church, has been assigned as minister of the Jason Lee Methodist church, Bla'ckfoot, Idaho, by the Rev. A. Raymond Grant, bishop of Portland. The an nouncement was made at the annual Methodist conference in Idaho at Nampa, Friday. The Troboughs will leave Medford Wednesday, May 28, for ' Idaho where he will as sume his new duties June 1. Mr. Trobough came to Med ford in June 1956. He has been in charge of the religious education program of the church and has developed a series of television and radio programs .for both First Meth odist church and the Medford Ministerial association. Prior to coming to Med ford he served churches in St. Helen's, Ore., Sommerville Mass., and Conway, Ark. He is married and has two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Gloria Glen. A coffee hour will honor the family at the First Metho dist church this morning fol lowing the 11 o'clock service. The first American ocean going ship was "The Virgin ia" an opendeck vessel of 30 tons, which was launched in Maine in 1607. 31 Measles Cases! Reported in Week' Reports of communicable diseases last week show a total of 31 cases of measles, according to figures from the" Jackson county health department. Measles were reported inl Ashland, Evans Valley . and Medford. Fourty nine cases j of German measles were in Ashland, Central Point, Med ford, Shady Cove and Trail, j Ashland reported 28 cases of measles and 16 cases of Ger man measles, and Medford re ported 18 cases of German measles. There were 37 cases of mumps, 21 of them in Med ford. Ashland had seven cases and Central Point five, with Phoenix, Trail, White City and Evans Valley each, report ing one. There was one case of in fectious hepatitis in Medford. Also reported in the county were pneumoia, one; strep throat, three; trench mouth, two; chicken pox, 11; influ enza, seven; whooping cough, two, and pink eye, one. Medford physicians report ed 62 cases of communicable diseases, and Ashland 46, ac cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health officer. Others reporting were Central Point, 17; Shady Cove, five; Evans Valley, three; White City, two; Trail, two; Phoenix, one. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, May 25, 1958 7 Crowing Contest to Be Held June 21 Rogue River The annual Rooster Crowing contest at Rogue River will be held on June 21 at Rogue River's com munity park, starting at noon. It will be preceded by a par ade at 10 a.m. The score of each rooster is tabulated by a judge, and the spectators hear a running report over the loudspeaker.. The record is 109 crows in 30 minutes. , The contest received na tional recognition in the June issue of Sunset magazine, which appeared on news stands last week. ! z j '- SEP! EST K I don't like to make wrong identifications, as I know I have done at times. Thursday. May 22. Back at home I note that Brewer's blackbirds have been frequenting our home grounds, which they do not usually do. I wonder if they are nesting nearby. I saw a female gather ing rose petals in her beak. Could that be nesting material? I don't find very many nests. That takes time and patience, both of which I have in short supply. Very likely red winged blackbirds are nesting in the marshy area just above us. I see birds of both sexes and the males sing their sweet, liquid song. T.M. fn IV EBegDnnong May fP'EE W lizi All Medford, Central Point and Shady Cove Dry Cleaning Plants and Commercial Laundries So ftyirdfey oft 11:3 p.m. ACME CLEANERS BIG Y. 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