Mountain Chickadee

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Gray Flycatcher singing


Evening Grosbeak maintaining itself after being banded




Mountain Chickadees are the only bird that have regularly been creeping up close to me during my point counting/nest searching, so here's another


Yellow-rumped

Full swing

Sleeping past 4 feels pretty good. I started point counting and nest searching on my own this week, which was mostly a success, but I only ended up with one nest, though it was the first Black-backed of the season:




Tomorrow, and a couple of days next week Amanda and I are going to help out the north crew with banding and demonstrations for a group of sixth graders. It should be interesting to see the banding site, which is right around this lake (Willow Lake):



And hopefully catch some of these:

Macgillivray's Warbler


Cassin's Finch


Mountain Chickadee




Here's a quick look at our living situation before we fully moved in.


Our room. We now have raised cots, we're moving up in life!




Also, welcome to my office, burned Sierra landscape!

Around the lake

Birded around our barracks today then headed around the east side of Lake Almanor to find more of the birds we will encounter during our point counts.

Difficult to photograph Macgillivray's Warbler


Maybe my favorite bird around here, Mountain Chickadee




The group at Chester's old airport strip


We also found this much less common Hooded Oriole