May 2 was Tom Scribner's Bluebird Field Trip to check on the boxes south of Pomeroy. Unfortunately it rained much of the day, but Tom still checked about 40 boxes (while the rest of us watched from inside our vehicles). We saw 50 mountain bluebirds and 4 western bluebirds. Six of the nests had eggs in them already and only two boxes had no nesting material in them. Earlier in the trip near Waitsburg we saw great horned owl chicks and two heron rookeries. Other notable sightings were a hairy woodpecker, a western kingbird and several vesper sparrows.
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