Needless to say, not much to report for banding in NJ since the rains have been pouring down for weeks. Cailin did increase the spring banding species count to 61, but not much else is going on at the moment.
I’ve been catching up on reports and website maintenance, caring for my ailing mom, and enjoying [...]
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Spring migration is drawing to a close, and Cailin has banded a total of 61 species – five of them new banding records for RRBO, including one of my favorites, a yellow-breasted chat.
We’ve heard chats on the property in the past, but never caught one. When I was banding in Kentucky, chats were all around [...]
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I was sitting out on my Mom’s lanai yesterday morning, enjoying a cup of coffee and talking with her, when an odd, sharp-whistling bird came flying in over the lake to land right in front of us, albeit on the other side of the jasmine hedge. This was all wrong. The bird was a duck. [...]
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