If you enjoy watching colorful birds singing on territory in an area thick with blooming native plants, then you should visit Camassia Natural Area in West Linn this week. It is one of my favorite birding patches this time of year. The sight and sound of neotropical migrants staking-out their territories against the backdrop of the spectacular annual bloom cannot, in my opinion, be beat in the Portland Metropolitan Area. http://www.jack-n-jill.net/blog/2014/4/Camassia_a_favorite_local_patch -- Jack Williamson West Linn, Oregon I bird because it helps me make sense of the world . . .