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Black Cardinal is Really Phainopepla

Females and young are gray with light gray spots wings. In the book Birds of North America, it is listed as rare in the country, but in the living area below Sonora, it can be seen quite often. Phainopepla are semi-migratory spending winters here. They nest and raise their young here, but when the summer heat begins, they go for more countries. It builds its nest on a branch in mesquite or near a bunch of mistletoe. The nest is made of quality materials held together with spider web hair and is lined with down from the seed pods. The male does most of the construction of the nest, and also helps to feed and raise young. If he loses his mate during this time, he will take the responsibility of raising the young all by himself until they are self-sufficient. To view him, walk down a wash and look for mesquite trees containing mistletoe. Listen for his soft, short, one-syllable whistle. He enjoys perching high on the tree. He is rather shy, keeping his distance – but often he will follow you, darting from tree to tree. If you imitate his call, don’t be surprised if he answers you. When you finally find the “window wing bird,” you will not be disappointed. Have you ever wondered what it was like to witness, first-hand, a battle of the Civil War? Did you know that, early in the war, some people took their picnic lunches to a nearby hill to watch the fighting? How loud were the cannon? What would it have been like to watch men fight each other over a patch of ground? These questions and many more will be answered by Civil War reenactors at the “Brawl in the Fall,” as they come to Pioneer Living History Museum (PLHM) from all over the southwest to participate in battles and skirmishes during the two day event. In addition to two or three battles each day, visitors will be treated to short seminars illuminating the life of the average soldier during this epic time in our nation’s history. Learn about the weapons and their effectiveness. Walk into a Union or Confederate camp and chat with the men and women who had to suffer the privations and the primitive conditions it demanded. Clothes for Keeps, a nonprofit organization, was started by Stacie Hawkins and her family. The idea behind the project came from being foster parents. Stacie and her husband Chris have been foster parents to children in the custody of Child Protective Services for the last 4 years.

SPRING NOTES: Giants climb into the Bod Pod, first base unlikely ...

Miguel Tejada looks in good condition as well. He gave his first interview in Giants gear. That piece should be up on the Web site soon, and will be in tomorrow’s paper.

Now there’s another way you can experience the newspaper layout. The Bay Area News Group launched its new iPad app, which will feature a lot of unique content. If you’ve got an iPad, check it out . I’m pretty sure there’s a free 30-day trial.

– Willie Mays is here. He sits at the same circular card table in the clubhouse, and as you’d expect, he signs a lot of autographs for various players, charities and other people. A few years ago, someone joked that he couldn’t see what he was signing. And so he responded in a unique way.

He autographed the table.

Now he does it every year. The Giants rent their clubhouse furniture from a local company. And when it’s time to load up and head back north, that company ends up with a unique piece of memorabilia. Sure enough, Willie wasted no time today. He used a metallic pen to stick a big signature on this year’s rental table.

– It’s fun to watch the pitchers throw their bullpen sessions. Javier Lopez is one of my favorites to watch. He’s like a houseplant that gradually bends toward the light. First he’s throwing three-quarters, then sidearm, then he’s in full, knuckle-dragging, Dan Quisenberry glory mode at the end.

Another cool observation is the way Buster Posey catches bullpens. I don’t know if he’s quite as intense as Mike Matheny, who would sprawl to block and smother wild pitches even though he could’ve just let them skip past. But Posey takes a similar mentality into these laid-back sessions, and he gives A LOT of verbal feedback.

Posey had good reason to talk up Santiago Casilla. He was throwing some gas, and his slider was moving. I got to stand roughly 5 feet away from where Posey was catching, and you really appreciate a high-velocity fastball when you’re that close to it.

“Whoo! Nasty,” Posey said.

Shortly thereafter, Sergio Romo threw a 55-footer that bounced past his catcher.

“SCUD!” he shouted.

– Another notebook tidbit that I’ll repeat here: Bruce Bochy said Posey isn’t likely to play much first base, and possibly none at all. Bochy wants his young catcher to start a lot of games, and when he gets a day off to recharge, he wants to make sure it’s a full rest. Bochy wouldn’t put a number on Posey’s anticipated starts, but when 135 was thrown out, the skipper said that was a good ballpark guess.

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