A Memorable Experience by Judy Osborn

I’ve been volunteering for a couple of years most weeks at the Vireo Preserve near
my house, restoring native plants to create habitat attractive to the black-capped
vireo. Those vireos disappeared from the area in 1987, but this year at least one
returned after wintering between Acapulco and Mazatlan. Hallelujah! Here’s a photo
of one taken this morning, along with a nest which the fledglings have just
abandoned, built only two feet off the ground in shrubbery and made from the bark
shed by our ashe juniper aka cedar trees.