A pleasant surprise on a slow morning – the first Black-billed Cuckoo of the year.
A great day to be outside! There was a good variety of birds around….just not down low in the area of the nets. So we did some work, made some changes: took down Net #1 and helped Carol put up her net – 4″C”. It will now be in competition with Nancy’s (1A), mine (6A) and Ben’s (9B). It got off to a great start – a Northern Waterthrush! We also put up 3 nets in the Meadow chain which we will use to see what migrants use the meadow as a stopover.
The first bird caught in Carol Jones’s net – 4″C” – a Northern Waterthrush.
Female Black-throated Blue Warbler.
Banded 15:
1 Black-billed Cuckoo (1st of the year)
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Eastern Wood Pewee
1 House Wren
1 Swainson’s Thrush
1 Wood Thrush
3 Gray Catbirds
1 Nashville Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Ovenbird
1 Northern Waterthrush
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Indigo Bunting
Dorothy the bird-whisperer…..usually she’s chasing Pileated Woodpeckers.
A (humming)bird in the hand….
Rick