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Yard, Jill F. in Oregon, Yard again



Last night I had a brief setback into the way it was a few years ago when I 
was a non-birder.......

While walking my dog just before dark, I was so preoccupied thinking about 
other stuff that I didn't even hear Whip-poor-wills calling in the nearby 
woods.  It was like they were a background noise that didn't register as a 
bird call for minutes on end, can you imagine :-)  Then all of a sudden I 
realized I was hearing them. and for the first time this spring in the yard.  
Hopefully I won't regress like that again anytime soon!

Jill Froning called twice yesterday from Oregon, where she is on non-birding 
business.  She took a day to bird there, and sounded like she was having a 
great time at a NWR that she described as very similar to ARNWR here in NC, 
can't recall the name.  
She was seeing and hearing Marsh Wrens everywhere, and held up her cell phone 
so I could hear them, and I could hear a few!  Even had one perched on her 
car.  A ranger told her about a place that she would be practically stepping 
over numerous species of Rails, Am. Bitterns, etc.  She was on her way there 
next.  Sounds pretty nice, if not almost unbelievable.

At home, have a Scarlet Tanager male who is spending lots of time on a 
hanging suet cage filled with no-melt orange suet from the Wild Bird Center.  
Last year the Summer Tanagers avidly ate this too, though haven't seen them 
on it yet this year.  The Baltimore Oriole that overwintered in my yard also 
liked it.
 
Shelley Theye

Shelley Theye
N. Chatham County, NC   (south of Chapel Hill)
Psbmt@aol.com