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Photo by Dan Froehlich The highlight of teen banding camp came on Thursday when the students flushed a Sora Rail out of the marsh that chanced to fly up toward the camp and tried to hide among some dark Ponderosa trunks. Everyone sprang into action to encircle the tree and trap the odd . . . → Read More: Think like a Sora Rail Photo by Dan Froehlich. Lincoln’s Sparrows up at Cash Prairie continued to pose identification challenges for the student Lincoln's Sparrow. Photo by Dan Froehlich. banders, illustrating that bird id in the hand is quite different than in the field. In the hand people use field marks quite different from those often . . . → Read More: Of sparrows & sapsuckers Spotted towhee. Photo by Dan Froehlich. Despite the unusual rains, we’ve caught some interesting birds. This Spotted Towhee surprised us at Cash Prairie. Last year, we didn’t have SPTO at any of our sites, though we detected them regularly down lower just above the Nile Valley. This juvenile was interesting not just for . . . → Read More: Interesting plumage Rain in the high country. Photo by Dan Froehlich. This season up in the Cascades is shaping up to be quite different than 2009. Most importantly, it’s been quite wet, with repeated rain showers and some of the most dramatic thunderstorms I’ve ever experienced in Washington. This storm moved down the . . . → Read More: A soggy season in the high country Top row L to R: Scott, Roberta, Don, Dan, Erin Sarah. Bottom row L to R: Samantha, Vanessa, Eric, Julia, Clint, Cindy, Nancy, Gail. Photographer: Andrea Wuenschel. This is what happens at Banding Camp when you have too much Pyle on the . . . → Read More: Too much Pyle on the brain…. The lush meadow at McDaniel Lake. Photo by Andrea Wuenschel. We arrived at McDaniel Lake for our annual Adult Banding Camp to find the stream higher, the vegetation greener and the mosquitoes hungrier than last year. We started banding on Monday with results that surprised us at first: last year most of our . . . → Read More: Adult Banding Camp Begins! Banders: Daniel Froehlich, driver, Chris Kessler, Paige Face We had a small group of banders today with Paige observing banding for the first time. She took some pictures and may submit a visitor posting of her own. Notable today was a Bewick’s Wren recapture that we first caught as a HY in 2004—a 6-year old female! . . . → Read More: McChord AFB, Period 9: July 21, 2010 Daniel Froehlich, driver Ken Hoffman There were only two of us at McChord today—thankfully my wife’s father pinch-hit as scribe today. Notable were the many HY Bewick’s Wrens and Song Sparrows. At the end of the session streams of birds headed for the water at net 16 where we caught six Puget Sound White-crowned . . . → Read More: McChord AFB, Period 8: July 15, 2010 Banders: Daniel Froehlich, Chris Kessler (driver), Brett Wolfe, Tayler Brooks Today we experienced some excitement, because I forgot to make key arrangements in advance to access the site through the usual locked McChord gate. I only realized this as we were driving down from Seattle. What to do? Well, on the off-chance that our trusty key-master in . . . → Read More: McChord AFB, Period 9: 26 July, 2009 Banders: Daniel Froehlich (driver), Chris Kessler, Ryan Merrill, Tayler Brooks Well, the MAPS season at McChord kind of fizzled out today with nary a warbler in the nets. Warblers were scarce in general this year, with about one-quarter the number of Common Yellowthroats last year, for example. Instead, we cleaned up on sparrows with juvenile juncos, towhees . . . → Read More: McChord AFB, Period 10: 30 July, 2009 |
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