[birding] Chocolate, fawn and camas

[howard bruner]

Herbert Farm was very lively this morning.  Savannah, gold-crowned and white-crowned sparrows very numerous.  Yellowthroats everywhere and the sky alive with cliff, northern rough winged, tree, and v-green all centered on the barn to the north of the public land.  The best part of the visit was that the owner of the barn property happened to come by and we got to talking and he had been a 
teacher in the same Dept of the University that I worked in and then 
went on to work all over the world doing logging engineering.  Fascinating tales of far-off places doing dangerous work.  He 
invited us to tour his land and we found a magnificent river bank floral
 display that included fawn lilies, camissia, yellow violets, prairie 
star, and the most abundant population of chocolate lily I have ever 
seen.

We went on to Finley and the boardwalk forest was crowded with yellow-rumps and orange-crowns and the peak bloom of the Cardamine penduliflora.  We saw numerous Pacific forktail damselflies and found a total of 38 species of birds -  
the most memorable a screaming yellow meadowlark singing next to the 
deck.

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