JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Issued from the Siskiyou Mountains west of Grants
Pass, southwestern Oregon, USA
June 28, 2009
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BLUEBIRD NEST IN A SNAG
During last weekend’s backpacking trip as I descended
Onion Mountain with Shan Creek Valley opening beside
me a certain blue speck streaked across my peripheral
vision. The flight was so smooth, a gliding swoop,
that without looking I knew it was a bluebird, but
which one? Of North American bluebirds there are
three: The Eastern, Western and Mountain. Out here we
can look for Western and Mountain Bluebirds.
