Highlights from the end of the Spring ’17 season

Extra sleeping time!
Eastern Kingbird
Martians
Brittany makes use of a naturally-occurring photo blind
In the tern colony
Kelly’s been baptized by a tern!
Class of 2003 Reunion
’03 was a very good year
Kelly and Liz celebrate the end of the season…
…with an invigorating wade in the swimming pool!

For the last 10 days or so of the season, banders were serenaded throughout the day by a wide variety of bird songs coming from all around the banding station.

The culprit:

Mockingbird Virtuoso

We grew quite attached to him! Here is the list we compiled of his repertoire:

  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Killdeer
  • Eastern Wood-pewee
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Common Tern
  • Blue Jay
  • Gray Catbird
  • Barn and Tree Swallows
  • Eastern Tufted Titmouse
  • Carolina Wren

and probably many others!

See you in the Fall!!