Common Nighthawk sleep

Incidental

Red eyed vireo in the nets


Common nighthawk again. Very creepy.

Wind

The wind has been great the last two days so we have been seeing a lot of birds and catching a few. The wind also makes it easier for the birds to bounce out of the nets, so we've had a bunch of close calls. Today we caught our first two merlins of the year and I got mine using the bownets which was a first for me. Threw the dove for attention, threw the starling to bring it in, it pounced on the sparrow and I dragged it in at sprang the net.






Each night we've also been attempting to catch nighthawks, for fun. Well, we finally got one last night. They are the strangest birds I've ever seen, hissing at you with their fleshy mouths like the demonic goatsuckers they are.





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