This past Monday was the opening day of bird banding for the spring season, in an area of the PSU Arboretum that we call Big Hollow. Â High winds speeds on Monday meant that we could only open a few of the nets and we only managed to capture one bird – a Tufted Titmouse. Today we had much better luck. Wind speeds were still a bit high, but we managed to captured 12 birds, representing 8 species. Today’s highlight was a stunning ‘Red’ Fox Sparrow, the first of this species to be banded in Big Hollow. Below are a few photos I took today.
Tufted Titmouse - this adult bird was our first banded bird of the season! (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)
Blue Jay - banded on 3/29/12 (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)
Fox Sparrow - banded on 3/29/12 (Photo by Alex Lamoreaux)
Alex holding the Fox Sparrow (Photo by Drew Weber)