A steady rain in the morning. Showers continuing in the afternoon. High 43F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 80%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch..
Tonight
Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 37F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
In angry times like these, we all need a little comic relief. Fortunately, America’s number-one game bird is once again, with comical inefficiency, building nests for the first of its six or so broods in the Western desert, as it has since the Pleistocene.
Although she will never hatch a chick, the female bald eagle housed at Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum nests annually with her partner, Ferguson, said Raptor Coordinator Julia Khoury.
Years ago, on an oak-covered hill, I found a slender white oak that was hollow, like a tube. About three feet up, part of the trunk ended in a little round hole. By sticking my nose down the hole and wrapping my hands around my face to exclude the sun, I could see all the way to the bottom, where half-a-dozen or so pearlescent, streaked eggs gleamed in a little heap of brown fur.
Beachgoers are urged to help recovery efforts of the threatened western snowy plover by respecting nesting areas and beach restrictions during nesting season, March 15 through Sept. 15, said a news release by Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
CORVALLIS — The “empty nest” of past generations, in which the kids are grown up and middle-aged adults have more time to themselves, has been replaced in the United States by a nest that’s full — kids who can’t leave, can’t find a job and aging parents who need more help than ever before.
