LISP

Hartley Nature Center

I went over to the Hartley Nature Center yesterday for a run, but then ended up birding around a bit beforehand. I mostly saw a lot of sparrows, including Song, Lincoln's, Swamp, White-throated, White-crowned, and my first Fox of the year.

 Red Fox Sparrow, strikingly different from the Sooty, seen here.

 Lincoln's were probably second to White-throated in number.

There were also a few thrush kicking around with the Catbirds, eating berries, including this Swainson's Thrush.
 

13!?

Amazingly few songbirds were caught this morning (13), but an Eastern Phoebe was nice, and a new species captured on the ridge for the fall.


Lincoln Sparrows are not uncommon, but are still one of my favorite sparrows we catch. They're just so CLEAN looking compared to the many song sparrows I've handled.


It was a fairly slow day for hawks too, so Dave, Frank and I took time to do some preliminary Saw-whet net set up, as it looks like we will be testing their migration sometime this week! Despite the slowness Frank did pull down an adult female harrier, possible the first I've seen in hand.

Black-throated Gray

Yesterday I banded at Redwood Creek with Amanda. We caught 14 birds, with 10 species, including two Lincoln's Sparrows, the first and possibly only Black-throated Gray Warbler of the year and a Western Scrub Jay, a common bird, but not often caught.

Hatch year female






This bird was at least ten years old (it was already banded, so we could look this up)




Lincoln's Sparrow

LISP again...

Yes, we've seen enough of these, but I think this pictures is way better.

LISP

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