Chestnut-sided Warbler

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Chestnut-sided Warbler

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

Sierra bird calls

Not much going in Leverett, saw the Pagoda, watching something other than the five movies we had in Costa Rica, working on Sierra bird calls, which is tough for now.

Collared Redstart


Volcano Hummingbird


Shabby looking Chestnut-sided Warbler


Pale-billed Woodpecker

So common

After a week away from the internet I always return with mixed feelings of dread and eagerness when it comes to checking email and reading my way through the 50+ blog posts sitting in my google reader. But with hours to kill in the airport, what else will I do? We thought we might have some troubles getting through immigration, because even though there is a 90 day maximum visit to CR (today is our 90th day), our passports had 40 days written in on the stamp for some reason...but now we're sitting at our gate having not even encountered a line or immigration desk.

In response to Danwell's recent kingbird and warbler posts, I give you the same species, but in MY BEAR HANDS.

Tropical Kingbird


Pissed off and showy


The most common warbler in Tortuguero, but only the last few that we captured showed any pazazz.

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