A Man Common Yellowthroat

Montague Plains

Checked out the Montague Plains today, the site of my very first field job back in '09.

Field Sparrow


Found a few color banded PRWAs there.


Pine Warblers around, looking confusing, and nice, like this guy.


And a young boy COYE.

Wickett Pond

Amanda, my dad and I paddled around Wickett Pond in Wendell, MA today.

The common Common Yellowthroat


A quiet, distance Prairie Warbler, my first of the year


Lots of Barn Swallows, though I was expecting Tree based on all the cavities surrounding the pond.


Eastern Kingbird. I really haven't seen many of these, ever.


The best bird for me was this Northern Harrier, which seemed to be hunting around the edges of the pond, catching frogs?

coye by the chicken coop

At 44 Cave Hill

Been sick the last few days, and it's humid as all hell here, but got out to get eaten alive this afternoon.

I also saw these:

Palm Warbler


Young male Common Yellowthroat


White-throated Sparrow


Savannah Sparrow


Lincoln Sparrow

Easterners (2)

Still working on quality, but here are some birds.

Black-throated green...below the feeder at home


Black-capped chickadee


NOT A BIRD!? Black squirrel


Common yellow throat and indigo bunting


Red-bellied woodpecker

Common Yellowthroat

Young male.

Common yellowthroat


Osprey

Boulder Bound

CUT's doing well so far, I'll makes there for the first game tomorrow...

Bigish day

Crazy day at Pine Gulch for us. After a fairly unsuccessful day yesterday we re-setup today, expecting worse weather than yesterday. It was looking that way, but after opening and closing the nets a couple of times, we were able to keep them running for close to enough hours. However, the wind picked up, and despite the clear sky we had to shut down early. That, however, does not mean that we didn't get any birds. On one net run we had 17 birds, which made things hectic as it started to rain, bird bags were low, and new interns are still working on skills like extraction (let alone doing it under semi-pressure). It all went well though, and ended up having a nice flow of birds for the next couple of hours, leaving us with a final of 25 birds and 7 species, which included: swamp sparrow, both subspecies of yellow rumped warblers, pine siskin, Anna's hummingbird, bushtit, common yellowthroat, and lincoln's sparrow.

Here is the swamp sparrow, a species we only catch a few times a year:


Female common yellowthroat


Male common yellowthroat


Cara and Renee processing the hummingbird




Female bushtit


Faded wingtips