Blue Bird Field Trip

Twelve people joined Tom Scribner for a successful trip south of Pomeroy in search of mountain bluebirds.  We saw 37 of them around  some of the many boxes Tom and his father put up over the years.  There is nothing quite as brilliant blue as a male mountain bluebird!  There were also 15 tree swallows in the area utilizing some of the boxes.  Other notable birds seen on the trip were western kingbirds, white-breasted nuthatches, Townsend's solitaires and a family of great horned owls.  The wind was a gale force in places up on top, but the bluebirds didn't mind and we could enjoy watching them from inside our vehicles.  Ginger