14 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, Juna 1, 1958
Diary
(6)
of a
Bird Watcher
Saturday. May 24 O
R. B. reported seeing the first nighthawk. This is an ear
ly record, equal to the earliest that Gabrielson & Jewett
know of.Jregard the nighthawk as the latest spring migrant
we haverThe main body of them don't usually arrive until
June. Last year I saw the first one May 30, the year before
June 2nd.
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Sunday, May 25
We don't have as many birds on the home place at this
season as we do in the winter. I only got 17 species on my
home list this week. But the trees and flowers on the place
are realy great. This afternoon Qiy wife and young son went
around counting the differenpkinds of flowers we have
blooming and came up with 7 This includes the different
varieties of iris and roses andUlifferent colors of batchelor
buttons. '
Monday. May 26
J. H. being ill and my wife busy I went on a morning
birding trip by myself. I was anxious to go up the Dead In
dian grade and see what birds were up there on the road to
Lake of the Woods. I went over the summit a short distance
and then hiked to a certain place where there is some par
tially cut over land which slopes down to a little valley
where there are aspens and willows. On the slope is a patch
of wild larkspur. Near it I found the calliope hummingbird
In exactly the same spot where we found it last year, perch
ing on a dead branch in the top of a small tree.
, Instead of feeding at the larkspur blossoms it kept dart
ing out after insects. I circled around so that the light was
right and its violet pink neckpiece gleamed in the sun. This
is supposed to be the smallest bird found in North America
and it is certainly an attractive one. This is the only place
where I havDeen it in our area although I am sure that dili
gent looking would discover quite a few more.
I also found a house wren which went to a nest hole in
the top of a tall stump. I seldom see house wrens in the
towns here in the west. They seem to favor the cut over land
in the hills.
In the afternoon I was calling out near Hoover lake, so of
course I stopped there. The terns were there, small black
terns and medium sized light colored ones with forked tails,
probably Forster's although the markings looked more like
common terns to me. It just happens that the "common"
terns are not nearly so common as the Forster's, so I would
have to get a better look to be sure of this identification. I
also saw gulls which, as usual, I couldn't get near enough
to identify. ' ' O O
Thursday, May 29 .
A year or more ago a neighbor gave me a red-hot poker
plant because she said hummingbirds like it. Tpfcay a hum
mingbird found it, the first I have seen on the; home place
this year. It was a female rufous, the common variety.
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Friday. May 30
This was one of the great birding days of my life. About
a dozen of us, working in four different parties, covered var
ious sections cf the county, both mountain and valley, and
counted STO species (more if the party finishing onthe upper
Rogue got any laie in the day). Our party alone counted 79
species. R. B. was our recorder, 3iile I did the driving. He
already had recorded 7 species when I picked him up at
4 a.m. This was by hearing it was still too dark to see clear
ly. Yet when I wanted to take a walk in the woods in the rain
in the evening dusk to listen for hermit thrushes he was still
rpariv to en with me. Prpttv snnr? fnr a A4 vpar nlr? hnv An.
other boy, T. T., who had just been maderan Eagle Scout the
night before was one of the most persistent observers in an
other party. .
As always on a long day of observing, some birds stand
out as of special interest because ajpt'heir beauty or rarity.
We had a wonderful view of a big pileated woodpecker near
the Rogue river at the end of Upton rd., the light shining
just right on its big, red crest. We got unusually close to a
male blue winged teal and a male cinnamon teal with a fe
male which could have belonged to either one, because thP
females are almost exactly the same. Both species are un
common this side of the mountains.
Late in the day, as it began to rain in the higher country,
we saw the calliope humming bird on "exactly the same tree
as before. We saw and heard the beautiful songs of Swain
son's (olive backed) thrushes. We didn't succeed in hearing a
hermit thrush, but did see one. As we came back from that
rainy walk and darkness was really falling a big horned owl
flew out of the woods apparently being chased by a couple
of robins. This capped the day. T.M.
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New Lions President
Jewett Elected
Lions President
Alan Jewett, a partner in
Jewett Office Supply and a
Medford business man for the
past 18 years, will be installed
as president of the Medford
Lions club at the annual, in
stallation banquet, Friday,
June 27. at 7 cm. at the
Rogue Valley Country club.
wives of members will be
20,000 Persons Visit
Las Vegas on Holiday
Las Vegas, Nev. (TJPI)
Tourists literally jammed this
desert resort and gambling
Mecca as the thfee-day Mem
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way. Q
The holiday crowd was es
timated at more than 20,000
persons and many of them
were having a hard time find
ing a place to stay.
The Chamber of Commerce
appealed to private home
owners to open their spare
rooms to take care of the
overflow.
guests for the evening.
Other officers of the club
for the 1958-59 year are Nick
Gier, first vice president; Joe
Patella, second vicepresident;
Lee Knox, secretary-treasurer;
Al Dollarhide, Lion tamer;
Herb Seitz, tail twister; and
Robert Harland and Tom Es
linger, directors. Clyde Webb
and Vern Nusbaum are hold
over directors.
Jewett is a past vice presi
dent and a past director of the
Medford Lions club. He is
also on the finance committee
of St. Luke's Methodist church
and a member of the camp
committee for Rogue area,
Girl Scouts of America. He
makes his home at 6 South
Groveland ave.
The cluboelected officers at
a meeting recently in the
Jackson hotel.
HEADS GROUP Glenn Mc
Cullough will be installed
July 1 as president of the
Rogue Valley Association of
Life Underwriters. Election
was held last week at Rogue
Valley Country club.
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manager who had offered to
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Restaurant manager Larry
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me?" Loper asked. .
31 Seniors Will Graduate From St. Mary's School
Commencement exerc i s e s
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St. Mary's High school will
be held Tuesday, June 3, at
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Jacqualine Garrett, valedic-
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Yreka A total of 286 stu
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June, according to Dr. Jere
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