Manomet

Four days in and we're up to 25 species! Lots of catbirds and Carolina Wrens, but otherwise a great mix, with ten species of warbler so far.

Northern Waterthrush from this morning.


My lifer Hooded Warbler.  The photo's a bit bright, but this was a stunning bird.  Big too!


My first Prairie Warbler in hand...wait, no, they were the first birds I ever worked with, back in 2009 in Montague!


Our only Brown Thrasher so far, which made all sorts of wonderful sounds in hand.

Manomet Visit

We visited Patrick over at Manomet this morning where he's interning as a bird bander for the fall season. Though it has been fairly slow recently, we lucked out with some great birds today, including a couple of life birds for me. It was great to have caught more than a few birds while there because it was our sister's and his girlfriend's first time seeing a banding operation and it's always disappointing to have visitors, but no birds!

Black-and-white Warbler


Brown Thrasher


Chestnut-sided and Blue-winged Warbler


Blue-winged Warlber. Check out that massive bill!


Patrick, performing under pressure.


Chestnut-sided release