Towheeblog

Shannon Rio and I took a family of KBO supporters on a birding trip in the Klamath Basin.  We worked our way from Rocky Point south to Link River, and the birds were there to be seen…despite some unforecasted rain.  White-headed Woodpecker and Olive-sided Flycatcher at Eagle Ridge.  Dancing grebes on Link River.  Sandhill Cranes at Howard Prairie en route from Ashland.

Below: Grosbeak, Bullock’s Oriole male, line of Franklin’s Gulls along Lakeshore, my favorite reptile of the day:

Male oriole on guard at nest, Eagle Ridge:

Treetop hunter, Olive-sided Flycatcher:

Then there were the Clark’s and Western Grebes in courtship mode…as Leonard Cohen wisely urged:
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 
Dance me through the panic till I’m gathered safely in 
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove 
Dance me to the end of love…