Landbirds

Horned Lark at Abbott's Lagoon in early March


Male Townsend's Warbler near Lake Merritt.  A few of these have been singing around the Palomarin field station, tripping me up the first time around, as I've barely heard their song before.

GUCR banding day

Banding was a great success yesterday, catching around 75 birds with nine nets, including 8 species of warbler (Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Black-throated Gray, Townsend's, Macgillivray's, Wilson's, Hermit and Yellow), an Evening Grosbeak, a male Western Tanager, a Warbling Vireo, a bunch of Song Sparrows, and others.

My first Evening Grosbeak, surprisingly not bitey


Monstrous indeed


Hermit Warbler




Hermit and Townsend's


Warbling Vireo


Female Macgillivray's


Male Macgillivray's. We had a few of these, but one of them is known to be at least 9 years old.


Black-throated Gray


Yellow


Amanda with a Stellar's Jay, hood up in response to the terrible mosquitoes, which were close to a first for us in the Sierras yesterday

Two days, maybe.

We're supposed to be leaving the island on Saturday, but it's all weather dependant...

Townsend's Warbler


Varied Thrush

Five Brooks to Lagunitas

Wilson's warbler in some dusty shrubs


Foxes napping






The yellow-breasted chat caught today at Lagunitas Creek. It appears that only 16 others have been caught by us...


Townsend's warbler

Pleased

Young male (both of them)


Amanda couldn't have been more pleased with this bird

First Townsend's warbler of the fall

Hatch year male

TOWA

Townsend's warbler (AHY male)