Blue copper, Lycaena heteronea.  Spotted at about 5000 in some yellow flowers in a ditch with a tyrickle of melt water running by.  Just under a 1.5″ wingspan.  They are common in a narrow range of habitats, one being alpine meadows and open woodlands where this one was feeding.

 

 

PEEKABOO WARBLERS

That’s a Yellow Warbler who was singing, from behind a bit of cover.

 

 

 

 

 

You can just about imagine this was a Wilson’s Warbler.  One of a pair that were feeding in the same willow that later held the two Yellow Warblers.  “Warbler willow” i’ve dubbed it.  But this guy was even harder to see than the Yellows.

 

 

So here’s what they really look like in a fine photo taken by my friend, May Woon:

FINCH FRENZY AT GRACE’S RANCH

 Location:     Ashland Pond
Observation date:     6/2/08
Number of species:     28

Canada Goose     2
Mallard     14
California Quail     2
Great Blue Heron     1
Killdeer     1
Mourning Dove     4
Anna’s Hummingbird     1
Western Wood-Pewee     4
Cassin’s Vireo     1
Western Scrub-Jay     4
Tree Swallow     14
Violet-green Swallow     1
Barn Swallow     1
Black-capped Chickadee     1
Bewick’s Wren     3
American Robin     2
Wrentit     2
Yellow Warbler     2
Wilson’s Warbler     2
Yellow-breasted Chat     3
Spotted Towhee     16
Song Sparrow     4
Black-headed Grosbeak     10
Red-winged Blackbird     24
Brewer’s Blackbird     4
Brown-headed Cowbird     3
Bullock’s Oriole     7
Lesser Goldfinch     8

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/Klamath-Siskiyou)