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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1958)
o o o ...... 1 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oro,. fi.aiay. J.ie t. 7938 Diary . Bird Watcher jf ? 1 1 Monday, June 2 Thp first thins in the morning I bought some nicotiana plants and set them out. I got them for their wonderful evening fragrance and also because they are auracuve iu hummingbirds. We should have a paradise for humming birds here after awhile because I planted the nicotine just in front of a bis bed of gladiolus. T.atpr in the mornine I went out in the car. Instead of making a bird list as I usually do I just cruised around the vallev looking for one thing, the nesting area of tricolored blackbirds. On Memorial Day we found that they were not nesting where I had thought they were, near Gregory road Finally, as it was time for me to come home, I found a place where they were nesting, not far from Scenic ave. north of Central Point. This later proved to be just a small section of the main nesting colony. After lunch I picked fip R. B. and took him out with me to explore the nesting colony of the tricolored blackbirds. We found that they were nesting mainly on the east side of Bear creek, just west and a little north of Mon Desir. We estimated about 1,500 birds in the area. They are very gre garious. Nests were sometimes within four feet of each other. All the nests we found were in dense blackberry tangles very difficult to penetrate. We didn't find any nests with young in them, but found a good many young birds apparently just out ofnthe nests. lie colony was pretty noisy, as the parent birds resented our intrusion. Many of them had caterpillars or worms in their (eaks, which might indicate that they are economically benQicial although they undoubtedly do damage at times, too, because of their habit of feeding close together in dense flocks. The males with their bright red and white shoulder patches were very pretty. Tuesday, June 3 o When we had the more natural part of our property mowed I managed to get the man to leave a couple of areas where there were a good many bachelor button plants grow ing wild.rJike them for two reasons. The blue flowers are very pretty. Then, when they go to seed they attract the equally pretty lesser (green-backed) goldfinches. Today I saw the firsUof these beginning to feed on them. There will be more as tne seeds ripen. Another plant the lesser goldfinches like is Michaelmas daisies. One of my bird loving friends gave us some plants a couple of years ago and they have multiplied so that now I would be glad to share them with others. They flower and ripen their seeds toward the end of the" summer. Charlie Hoover was kind enough to call me and say that some unusual, large, white birds were on. the lake. I couldn't go over right away but did later in the afternoon, and then the big white birds had gone. But Hoover lake didn't disap point me. There were a good many swallows flying and feeding just above the surface of the water and among them were at least four purple martins. Tftese handsome blue black swallows are not nearly as common in the west as back east. They seldom if ever occupy the apartment type bird houses that are often put up for them. I have not seen them on the floor of our valley before. Last June I saw them apparently nesting up at Hiatt lake. I finally finished tabulating our Memorial Day bird count. We ended up with 91 species. We did well on valley birds, but could probably have found more mountain species with more observers taking more time. Two of the commonest valley species we missed were Lewis' woodpecker and com mon snipe. Tne observers taking part were: Richard Brown (ranger naturalist at Crater Lake), Ralph Browning, Mrs. Howard Bush, Betty Jo Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCamant (that's us), Mr. and Mrs. Carl Richardson, Dr. John Reynolds, Mrs. W. D. Pearson and Tom Turpin. , The species we listed in the greatest numbers was the Brewer's blackbird with 285. The only other one that we counted more than a hundred of was the meadowlark with 132. Too bad we hadn't yet found the nesting colony of tri colored blackbirdsat that time. Court Upholds Decision Against Reynolds Firm San Francisco (UPI) - The U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a 530,000 decision against the Reynolds Alumi num Co. over the protests of America's eight largest alu minum producers. The appeal tribunal voted 5-1 to uphold the award to the Paul Martin family of Trout- dale, Ore., for alleged fluoride poisoning. It was the first case in his tory in which aluminum com panies were charged with such injuries. It was also the first case in which it was al leged fluoride compounds could be harmful to humans. Windows Etched . Testimony revealed that as much as 3,988 pounds of fluo ride a day were passed into the air enough to etch the windows of the Martin ranch. But Reynolds representa tives, backed by the seven other firms, had asserted that it was impossible to make aluminum without emitting fluoride concentrates into the air. It was further argued that medical experts differ on how much fluoride will cause injury to humans. The court ruled that the in structions given the jury by trial judge William G. East of Portland, Ore., were not pre judicial. It was the second time the court ruled on the case. There are 250 religious de nominations in the United States. Personally Yours Friday-June 6 Today I saw the first of the new crop of baby pheasants out in our field with a hen. They didn't look tiny enough to be just out of the egg. They usually keep hidden in the tall Qgrass for quite a while before I get a glimpse of them. T.M. Pacifist Crewmen Given Jail Terms n Honolulu (UPI) The fed eral government lowered the boom today on fivPcrewmen of the Golden Rule for try ing to sail their yacht into .the Eniwetok atomic area to protest l?jS. nuclear tests. Three the(tjve were sen tenced to ' 60 days in jail Thursday for defying a ppurt order forbidding them t&sail their vessel. A pur was given probation. o Jiffy Would CImo Corvallis Jail Corvallis (UPI) The, city of Corvallis should dis continue use of its jail, ac cording to the Benton county grand jury. The jurors also recommend ed hiring of a full-time night jailer by the couny adminis tration. They said Corvallis officials "have been remiss in their ob ligations" in allowing to ex ist for three years a jail that was established as a tempor ary facility." They said the jail is a fire hazard, has no heat control and is unsanitary. City and county officials have been considering the pos sibility of merging the jail facilities. 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