http://www.portlandbirdwatching.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:04:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.portlandbirdwatching.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-3206 Ben Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:04:11 +0000 http://www.portlandbirdwatching.com/blog/?p=32#comment-3206 Summer is not over, but Fall is clearly on it's way. Youngsters will move on, yet they will always come back. (Usually for laundry and a good meal.) Summer is not over, but Fall is clearly on it’s way. Youngsters will move on, yet they will always come back. (Usually for laundry and a good meal.)

]]> http://www.portlandbirdwatching.com/blog/?p=23&cpage=1#comment-3077 Jim Morris Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:56:29 +0000 http://www.portlandbirdwatching.com/blog/?p=23#comment-3077 Thanks for your comments about our favorite little bird, the Violet-green Swallow. This year, however, we have seen an amazing new behavior by our Forest Grove family of V-G Swallows. They are actually sharing a bird box with a colony of paper wasps. The birds come and go, the wasps come and go, and neither seems to fear the other (of course, we know who should fear whom). It's certainly possible that the swallows are gobbling wasps inside the box and out of sight, but a couple of points seem clear. If the swallows are gobbling the wasps, then 1- The wasps should be completely consumed by now and 2- The wasps should have "gotten the heck out of Dodge" long before now. Yet we sit on our patio and watch trip after trip by both bird and wasp, all ending in the same small entrance hole to the bird box. Ever seen anything like this? Thanks and all the best, Jim and Diane Morris, Forest Grove. Thanks for your comments about our favorite little bird, the Violet-green Swallow. This year, however, we have seen an amazing new behavior by our Forest Grove family of V-G Swallows. They are actually sharing a bird box with a colony of paper wasps. The birds come and go, the wasps come and go, and neither seems to fear the other (of course, we know who should fear whom). It’s certainly possible that the swallows are gobbling wasps inside the box and out of sight, but a couple of points seem clear. If the swallows are gobbling the wasps, then 1- The wasps should be completely consumed by now and 2- The wasps should have “gotten the heck out of Dodge” long before now. Yet we sit on our patio and watch trip after trip by both bird and wasp, all ending in the same small entrance hole to the bird box. Ever seen anything like this? Thanks and all the best, Jim and Diane Morris, Forest Grove.

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