I wore my orange pants and banded in the field loop of the ecological station today. They were a gift from my best friend's mom stemming back to a song about orange pants.
Today's major lesson was that it is okay if grackle wings look like they're halfway to becoming a skeleton- they're probably just molting.
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| Male grackle mid-molt |
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| Female grackle |
A few weeks ago I tracked an indigo bunting up and down a road to get small glimpses of his brilliant plumage. Today we caught one and I got to be awed from a very close range.
The day began with a plethora of wood thrushes and slow nets- variety and quantity picked up later on and we got a first of the summer:
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| Male chestnut-sided warbler |
Some more pretty birds
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| Oven bird |
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| White-breasted nuthatch |
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Juvenile catbird
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July's nature
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| Bee on milkweed patch |
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| Honeysuckle |
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| Low-hop clover |
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| Nursery web spider |
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| Tree root with chipped away bark and a daddy long leg |
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| Sumac |
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| Robber fly |
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| Little wood satyr |
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