Date: 9/4/24 2:10 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] West Hill Park banding 9/4
Thanks to Strickland Wheelock for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 20:45:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Strickland Wheelock <skwheelock...> Subject: West Hill Park banding 9/4
A crispy cool morning that turned hot by 11 am - plenty of birds flying about esp E Phoebes - each day we are catching several while watching groups of others flying about - the large mixed flock of sparrows were active around our nets again that contain many immature Chipping and Field Sparrows and again today, we caught an immature male Indigo Bunting part of the group.Best possible bird today that slipped away [was partially caught on the back side of the pocket] I believe was an Orange-cr Warbler but needed a longer look, but last year at this time we caught a few of them.We again did just 3 net checks where we caught 25 birds that kept us busy until noon - have I mentioned what a great way to spend the morning - today's mix was several E Phoebes, Chipping & Field Sparrows, 4 E Towhees, 1 Indigo Bunting, 1 Ovenbird, 1 immature male C Yellowthroat, 1 B-C Chickadee, some banded & unbanded Catbirds.Like each day, we enjoy the Bluebirds, the calls of the Wood Pewee and Gt Crested Flycatchers, many notes of various warblers & vireos, kingfishers, etc - today there was a Pileated Woodpecker actively flying around us calling almost non-stop - just walking the field trails to the nets having all these sparrows feeding close by, flitting up teasing us.No time = for binocs because we would never keep up with all the extractions, banding steps each run involves.
