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Male Mountain Bluebird near Bickleton, Washington. Bickleton is called The Bluebird Capital of the World. With a population of 90 people and thousands of bluebirds that spend most of the year in the area, the town likely deserves the title. The following information about the Bickleton bluebirds is posted at www.ourbetternature.org/bickletonwa.htm. Mountain and Western Bluebirds flock to Bickleton because of the Brinkerhoff family. In 1968, Jess and Elva Brinkerhoff took a day trip to Bickleton. They wanted to show their two young sons the spring profusion of wildflowers. While enjoying the scenery, they spotted a bluebird. Hoping to encourage it to stay, they retrieved a metal coffee can from the local dump, fashioned a rough birdhouse and nailed it to a tree. As they stood by and watched, two bluebirds moved in. The Brinkerhoffs were hooked. Over the next four decades, they and others installed an estimated 2,000 wooden bluebird houses in and around the town. Each year, a Bickleton “bluebird brigade” of residents, farmers, and school children volunteer to build, repair, paint and clean out the boxes.
Hood ornament plus, what makes me think of a chrome waterfall on an old Pontiac in the Whoop-N-Holler Museum huge shed.
Isn't this a beauty? Chief Pontiac was assassinated in 1769, long before the car company was founded.
Although the first Pontiac car didn't debut until 1926, the division's history actually dates back to 1893, when Edward M. Murphy established the Pontiac Buggy Company in Pontiac, Michigan. The company produced horse-drawn carriages. As it became clear that motor car sales were going to eclipse carriages, Murphy wisely started the Oakland Motor Car Company, an offshoot of the buggy company, in 1907.
House Sparrow near Bickleton, Washington. Along with two other introduced species, the European Starling and the Rock Pigeon, the House Sparrow is among the most common birds in North America.
near Bickleton
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Bickleton, Washington is home to many lovely Bluebirds, and in fact is well knows as a Bluebird Capital. Folks there make and tend to perhaps hundreds of bluebird houses along Bluebird trails in this high altitude plateau country in Eastern Klickitat County.;
Adventure came my way on a lovely day in May with sunshine and thunderheads, wildflowers and quaint little towns. Bickleton Highway... it called me and I ran (and stopped a LOT) among the Eastern Klickitat County terrain that i know so little about. WHat a delightful surprise that was! I slept on a back road in my truck at about 2000 ft elevation I would guess, and by the time I got to the town of Bickleton I was at 3000 ft elevation and the storm that I had been chasing has dumped rain and hail on the streets just before I arrived in my little red truck. Lunch in the Bluebird Cafe was a delicious Salmon burger and salad, a perfect meal for the journey. After lunch and some more shooting around town and just outside, I wandered back home via a southern route that took me among many windmills at sunset and back down to the Gorge near Roosevelt. From there I took highway 14 back to White Salmon, tired and happy.
I am uploading mass images this time into a photo album of their own.
mom car, Bickleton Hwy from Ekone to Goldendale WA, SAT 3-31-18, Canon 50D EF-S 15-85mm IS USM hand (163)
We were treated to this great view and rainbow cloud after a scorching climb around Bickleton.
Asta was great company and a superb cyclist. So much energy!
I talked with(E-Mail)Ada Ruth Whitmore today and she says that the museum is closed now and may or may not open in the future. This advertisement is from July 1999. Lawrence Whitmore is a descendant of Columbus Cole, who was the founder of Marcola Oregon, my home town. Marcola Oregon was named after the founders wife; Mary(Molly) Cole.
estern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus griseus) near Bickleton, south-central Washington State. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_gray_squirrel
estern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus griseus) near Bickleton, south-central Washington State. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_gray_squirrel
Female Mountain Bluebird near Bickleton, Washington. Bickleton is called The Bluebird Capital of the World. With a population of 90 people and thousands of bluebirds that spend most of the year in the area, the town likely deserves the title. The following information about the Bickleton bluebirds is posted at www.ourbetternature.org/bickletonwa.htm. Mountain and Western Bluebirds flock to Bickleton because of the Brinkerhoff family. In 1968, Jess and Elva Brinkerhoff took a day trip to Bickleton. They wanted to show their two young sons the spring profusion of wildflowers. While enjoying the scenery, they spotted a bluebird. Hoping to encourage it to stay, they retrieved a metal coffee can from the local dump, fashioned a rough birdhouse and nailed it to a tree. As they stood by and watched, two bluebirds moved in. The Brinkerhoffs were hooked. Over the next four decades, they and others installed an estimated 2,000 wooden bluebird houses in and around the town. Each year, a Bickleton “bluebird brigade” of residents, farmers, and school children volunteer to build, repair, paint and clean out the boxes.
Alder Creek Pioneer Association, Bickleton – $1,000 to be put toward the restoration of the Wurlitzer Band Organ, which is part of a larger effort to restore their historic carousel.
Mountain Bluebird female near Bickelton, Washington. Bickelton, with more than 2,000(?) nest boxes like this one deployed by local residents, is known as the Bluebird Capital of the World.
The Interior of an old sheep camp wagon at the Woop 'N' Holler ranch museum in Bickleton.
Photo by Jens Lund.
I forgot to see what car this was on. The Boyce Moto-Meter, patented in 1912, was a thermometer that read the temperature of the radiator's vapor.
This was seen on a car at the Whoop-N-Holler Museum 11 miles south of Bickleton.
Male Mountain Bluebird near Bickleton, Washington. Bickleton is called The Bluebird Capital of the World. With a population of 90 people and thousands of bluebirds that spend most of the year in the area, the town likely deserves the title. The following information about the Bickleton bluebirds is posted at www.ourbetternature.org/bickletonwa.htm. Mountain and Western Bluebirds flock to Bickleton because of the Brinkerhoff family. In 1968, Jess and Elva Brinkerhoff took a day trip to Bickleton. They wanted to show their two young sons the spring profusion of wildflowers. While enjoying the scenery, they spotted a bluebird. Hoping to encourage it to stay, they retrieved a metal coffee can from the local dump, fashioned a rough birdhouse and nailed it to a tree. As they stood by and watched, two bluebirds moved in. The Brinkerhoffs were hooked. Over the next four decades, they and others installed an estimated 2,000 wooden bluebird houses in and around the town. Each year, a Bickleton “bluebird brigade” of residents, farmers, and school children volunteer to build, repair, paint and clean out the boxes.
"Junior" Mountain Bluebird, following Dad around. Many of the bluebirds hang out at the cemetary, but there are bird houses all around the town and associated farms/ranches.
Bickleton, Washington is home to many lovely Bluebirds, and in fact is well knows as a Bluebird Capital. Folks there make and tend to perhaps hundreds of bluebird houses along Bluebird trails in this high altitude plateau country in Eastern Klickitat County.;
Adventure came my way on a lovely day in May with sunshine and thunderheads, wildflowers and quaint little towns. Bickleton Highway... it called me and I ran (and stopped a LOT) among the Eastern Klickitat County terrain that i know so little about. WHat a delightful surprise that was! I slept on a back road in my truck at about 2000 ft elevation I would guess, and by the time I got to the town of Bickleton I was at 3000 ft elevation and the storm that I had been chasing has dumped rain and hail on the streets just before I arrived in my little red truck. Lunch in the Bluebird Cafe was a delicious Salmon burger and salad, a perfect meal for the journey. After lunch and some more shooting around town and just outside, I wandered back home via a southern route that took me among many windmills at sunset and back down to the Gorge near Roosevelt. From there I took highway 14 back to White Salmon, tired and happy.
I am uploading mass images this time into a photo album of their own.
What do you suppose he's showing this little girl? Seems like it must be interesting!
This is the same little girl who mutton busted longer than anyone.
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For a town of 97 people, Bickelton WA goes to great efforts to maintain its "Bluebird Capital of the World" status. This handsome fellow is chilling on a post by a road, probably keeping his eyes open for insects.
Male Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) near Bickleton, Washington. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Bluebird/overview www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/western-bluebird