In-hand

So far this season I have taken very few in-hand bird photos, but here are a few, most of which are off of my iPhone, so not great, good birds though.  Now that the intensive training period has passed I think I'll be taking and posting more photos, both in-hand and in the wild.

We caught five Cedar Waxwings this week at one of our offsites, my first ever in-hand.  There was a flock of over a hundred in the area, but only a few seemed low enough to make it into our nets, a few others even bounced out.


I'm not sure what's going on with the lighting in this photo, but look at the WAX! Amazing.


We've caught more swallows this season than I ever have before, all of which were Tree Swallows, except for this one female Violet-green.


Tree Swallow looking minuscule next to these hands.


Swamp Sparrows are around, but not too common, so catching two new ones this season has been a nice surprise.


A messy looking Yellow-rumped Warbler.

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Down in the Bay for our break. Here are the results of a feeble attempt at photographing swallows.

Violet-greens






A juvenile


This was at Lake Merritt, in Oakland, where there were also tons of these: