Northern Lapwing!

I'm back in Massachusetts!  And I saw this Northern Lapwing, a rare-ish European shorebird.  Apologies for the crappy digiscoping.

Eastern Phoebe

Today we had a visitor from the East Side. It was a Phoebe, it was cute and it liked me.


Yesterday we had a Lark Sparrow.


And today we also had another sunset.

Yellow Palm Warbler

We've seen and caught a a few Western Palm Warblers since I've been here, but yesterday we found this uber vagrant in our nets.

Caught some

Caught some birds today too!

Tennessee Warbler


A couple of Burrowing Owls this evening

Yellow-bellied sapsucker in the West

Though I was seeing these in the East only two weeks ago, this Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is a pretty great catch here at Palo. There were a bunch captured in the '70s, but it turns out that they were lumped with the Red-breasted Sapsucker back then...so its hard to say if any were caught then. In'91 there was one bird that was caught a few times, but this is the first since. And it's been caught twice today...










First release:


Second release:


Photos of Tahoe to come...

Hummingbirds abound

Today was the first EVER broad-billed hummingbird captured at Palo, very exciting. They're still unsure of the record status for the county, but possibly the first? I wasn't here though...

Yesterday Amanda and I did get down to Keith's gallery to check out the Costa's hummingbird that had been hanging around for a day or so. Lucky for us Keith and the hummingbird were there, so we got a little hummingbird ID tutorial from him, and some great looks at the bird.