This morning Jessica Pollock, Jay Carlisle, Heidi Ware, and I went up to Jennifer Alban’s famous front yard to do a hummingbird banding demonstration for … Read More
Banding at the Bald Eagle Birding Festival
Today I spent the day banding with Emily at the Bald Eagle State Park Birding Festival. We set up at 7am for the dedicated few … Read More
Some sunshine- Yellow Warbler portrait
Friday mornings are banding days at the arboretum and this gets more exciting as migration really goes into full swing. This past Friday’s highlight for … Read More
Banding mimids- Gray Catbird and Brown Thrasher
We finally got a chance to do some banding at the Arboretum at Penn State this week, first for the Ornithology Lab on Thursday and … Read More
Sunset Park banding
This past Friday I helped out some colleagues with banding at Sunset Park. It was the first day of banding after a long string of … Read More
Trapping Crested Caracara in Florida
In mid-February, I helped capture a few of the adult Crested Caracara we had been monitoring at nest sites. Adults were still tending to their … Read More
Sparrow Drive at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Florida
On my day off last week, I attended a “sparrow” drive at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park. This event was organized by the park biologist, … Read More
Canada Goose with a telemetry pack
I birded today at Bald Eagle State Park and picked up new county year bird- a flock of 20 Common Goldeneye. There was a nice … Read More
PA’s First Ever Anna’s Hummingbird!
This afternoon I was able to drive over to the Mountain Springs Camping Resort near Hamburg to see the Anna’s Hummingbird that was captured and … Read More
Dark-eyed Juncos- the females
On Friday, we caught three Dark-eyed Juncos in one net check. As you can see from the photo of the three together, they exhibited a … Read More