SPOW

Spotted Owl in Marin!

In-hand

So far this season I have taken very few in-hand bird photos, but here are a few, most of which are off of my iPhone, so not great, good birds though.  Now that the intensive training period has passed I think I'll be taking and posting more photos, both in-hand and in the wild.

We caught five Cedar Waxwings this week at one of our offsites, my first ever in-hand.  There was a flock of over a hundred in the area, but only a few seemed low enough to make it into our nets, a few others even bounced out.


I'm not sure what's going on with the lighting in this photo, but look at the WAX! Amazing.


We've caught more swallows this season than I ever have before, all of which were Tree Swallows, except for this one female Violet-green.


Tree Swallow looking minuscule next to these hands.


Swamp Sparrows are around, but not too common, so catching two new ones this season has been a nice surprise.


A messy looking Yellow-rumped Warbler.

HOWR

House Wren at Mt. Diablo last week.  It's odd when a bird like this is exciting to see, but IT WAS.

WEBLs at Mt. Diablo

Juncos building

Waxwings on eucalyptus

Audubon

A banded Audubon's Warbler at the Richardson's Bay Audubon Center.

Rain again

Red-winged Blackbird along the lagoon

SNEGs

Snowy Egrets at the Bolinas Lagoon.

White-crowned Ruffle

White-crowned Sparrow at the fish docks.

Stare Down

Black-crowned Night Heron