Polk Residents Return From Western Summers
Mr and Mrs John Cruse came home Sunday after a summer in Washington and Colorado. Edna Stankel returned with them after several weeks away. Mrs Myrtle Hall flew home to Laramie Wyoming to attend the funeral of Mr P. W. Aker. Mr and Mrs Richard Gustafson and family visited the Mike Harris home at Clarks on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cruse
Washington
Colorado
Edna Stankel
Myrtle Hall
Laramie
Wyo
Grand Island
P. W. Aker
Richard Gustafson
Mike Harris
Clarks
Wild Bird Watching in Platte Valley Sees Abundant Fruit
A lone observer details a dawn trek five miles west of Hordville to between Monroe and Silver Creek noting turtle doves in abundance, hawks distant, kingbirds, flickers, wrens, thrashers and a blue heron upriver. Wild plums, elderberries and monarch butterflies are plentiful along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hordville
Monroe
Silver Creek
Lake Mary Ranch
River Road
Central City
Seature
Birds and scenery along the Platte and surrounding roads
A travelogue of bird sightings across the Platte region including cardinals kingbirds goldfinches and chickadees with notes on hawks sandpipers and larks. It also mentions bittersweet fruit along the river and a Swainson’s hawk observed overhead during a road trip near Rags Carlson’s farm and Havens bridge road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covenant Cedars Camp
Shenk
Havens Bridge
Rags Carlson
Highway 30
Loup
Platte
Silver Creek
Monroe
Wing and birding trip yields mixed counts near Polk
A road stop by a puddle reveals killdeer pectoral sandpipers and several shorebirds in a feed yard while horned larks and sandhill trails produce few nighthawk sightings with Lee Morris and Swede Lind. A mallard hen near Silver Creek ends the trip. robins pheasants and quail are missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Morris
Lind
Silver Creek
Polk
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hordville High School
C. Ease
Shelby
Hampton
McCool
Benedict
Ee Neeeeereetes
Eeseeennas Marquette
Wa Peeiga Eas
Gresham Tees
Bradshaw
Eetavreeseone Shelby
Seoneee
Platte Valley
Stromsburg
Polk Oil Co
Coop Oil, Inc
Mount Vernon
Wash
Norris
Polk Area
E. W
Mildred Beckman
Janson
San Francisco
Cal
Alfred
San Francisco State University
Lynn Ludlow
Courtney Peddle
Peddle
Geritol
Marsha Redman
Pressman
General Handyman
Ludlow
Gaylord Dose
Dolan Hahn Home
Mason Nurseries
York, Nebraska
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