Going back home to the EAST coast

Orange-crowned Warbler taking off


A birthday creation and a creepy shirt.


Brent with his first hummingbird


Steller's Jay release


Birds in bags. After taking them out of the nets we keep the birds in these bags until we are ready to process them.


Rufous Hummingbird finally taking off



Photos by Alicia Arcidiacono

Jay

Steller's

seems like a recond

24 birds at palo today

Scott and Xeronimo checking out the baby Steller's jay we caught this morning


Short bill, large, pale gape


Juvenile Oregon junco with a possibly busted leg

Best day so far

Today Amanda and I had a really great day banding at Redwood Creek. We caught a total of 41 birds, with 16 species. The highlights were 2 barn swallows, a tree swallow, a black-headed grosbeak, a warbling vireo, and mix of juvenile birds! We also ran into a female common merganser with 4 chicks, shortly before peeking into the hummingbird nest I found the week before, which now has two cute little raisin-like nestlings in it.

Female black-headed grosbeak


Steller's Jay


Barn swallow #1



Barn swallow #1, female


Barn swallow #2, male



Barn swallow #2, awesome tail, and with a couple of retained primaries in there


Barn swallow secondaries, very cool heart shape, which you don't see in other birds


Male California quail






All three of us, wearing hats


Tree swallow




Hummingbird raisins

Stinglet

Nice out today, but my back hurts.

Caught two birds that I'd been hoping to.

Golden crowned kinglet

Male




Stellar's Jay

Birds at zion

Stellar's Jay:


White-crowned sparrow:


American dipper (the only song bird that regularly swims):