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Scrub-Jay in canopy, one of our mimosa trees. Below: juvenile Steller’s Jay with his crest still a bit unformed.

Band-tail hiding from the sun.

Dipper along Ashland Creek. Last evening I saw one fly through the upper culvert beneath Granite Street about fifty yards up from the swimming reservoir, singing along as it moved downstream.

House Wren.

YOUNG TURKS
Female with four youngsters browsing in Lithia Park:

HEAT
These two nestling Bald Eagles were captured while panting in the sun…in nest along Westside Road at northwest edge of Klamath Lake. Suspect this picture was taken by Matthew Gooding, his wife Shannon emailed it to me:

KIT LARSEN’S PICS
Here are three images taken this month by Kit Larsen who was visiting Ashland from Corvallis:

This Hermit Warbler was on Grizzly Peak.