The last week of rain and humid temperatures have at least been good for something – if not bird banding. A lovely patch of mushrooms growing in the wood chips right outside the bird observatory door.
I have no idea what kind they are, and haven’t had time to look them up, as I’m on a [...]
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Just another rainy day….
Wake me when the sun comes out…..
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It’s hard to believe fall migration is already underway, when we’ve just completed our breeding season samplings for the avian flu study and sent them off to the folks at UCLA for analysis.
RRBO is part of LaMNA : Landbird Monitoring Network of the Americas, and we are taking part in a four-year study to collect [...]
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Our local newspapers have been reporting that a few residents in Sparta (which is only about 30 minutes from here, and where my son Rob lives) have reported encounters with mountain lions. Most other people are apparently shrugging these reports off as misidentification of a big house cat, or some other excuse. Fish and Wildlife [...]
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Yesterday’s banding session brought this fine female black and white warbler. Isn’t she pretty?
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My son Rob, whom some of you know is a pretty good photographer, entered two photos just for the heck of it, in the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show/NJ State Fair, going on this week. He entered this photo in the Still Life category….
and came up with a blue ribbon! He also entered this [...]
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The fall migration banding season technically started Aug. 1st, but we probably won’t be seeing many migrants until later in the month. The first week or two of August seems to be a resting period and it’s usually fairly quiet. This morning was no exception, as we only caught eight birds in a three-hour session. [...]
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Yesterday I mentioned I’d post about a cool bug, and you’re about to get more bug than you bargained for. First, the alarming little guy that was caught in the net was an eyed click beetle.
I say he was alarming not only for his false “eyes” that are intended to scare off predators, but for a [...]
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