Black-throated Greens at Middle Run

Black-throated Green cooperation

Highlanders

More highland birds here for you. Not only do we catch a lot more birds in the mountains, the highlanders seem to just be easier to photograph. Both of these facts seem to be a result of the habits we're banding in. Though there are plenty of birds on the humid coast here in Tortuguero, the canopy is much higher and there are way fewer ground foraging species to be captured. Oddly enough one of the only species we consistently catch in lowest pockets of our nets in Tortuguero are the woodcreepers. In the mountains there are hoards leaf litter kicking finches to fill our inadequately tall nets. Really we need to have triple (I guess MDDettling did do it...) or quadruple stacked nets in Tortuguero, but that is unheard of as far as I know, and everything would be stolen by locals within days.

Collared Trogans are easy to find with a little bit of call and response whistling


Black-and-white Warbler


Black-throated Greens are really common, but a welcome sight after seeing so many Townsend's last year.


A very young Slaty Flowerpiercer


Ruddy Treerunner


Black-capped Flycatcher

Black-throated Green

DAR-Ash Bog-Bear Swamp-Sugarloaf

Easterners (2)

Still working on quality, but here are some birds.

Black-throated green...below the feeder at home


Black-capped chickadee


NOT A BIRD!? Black squirrel


Common yellow throat and indigo bunting


Red-bellied woodpecker

Montague Plains

Went banding today in Montague with my bro.


We caught around 20 birds, including: common yellow throat, chestnut-sided warbler, prairie warbler, black-throated green warbler, black-throated blue warbler, ovenbird, gray catbird, eastern towhee, black-capped chickadee and wilson's warbler.

Chestnut-sided warbler


Black-throated green warbler


Black-throated blue warbler