Opinion - Grouse Hollow Journal: Birds, wildlife and flowers make for colorful summer

I stepped out on the porch at 5 this morning (June 26). The air was dry and cool, a relief after two days of tropical humidity at dawn. Bird life was stirring. Mourning doves were chanting their eerie call. I could hear the rusty swing set like call of a sandhill crane down the coulee. A turkey was clucking up on the hill behind the shop; perhaps it was a ringing of the breakfast bell turkey style. A wren flitted about singing its morning song in nearby branches. Across the...