Full swing

Sleeping past 4 feels pretty good. I started point counting and nest searching on my own this week, which was mostly a success, but I only ended up with one nest, though it was the first Black-backed of the season:




Tomorrow, and a couple of days next week Amanda and I are going to help out the north crew with banding and demonstrations for a group of sixth graders. It should be interesting to see the banding site, which is right around this lake (Willow Lake):



And hopefully catch some of these:

Macgillivray's Warbler


Cassin's Finch


Mountain Chickadee




Here's a quick look at our living situation before we fully moved in.


Our room. We now have raised cots, we're moving up in life!




Also, welcome to my office, burned Sierra landscape!