Birders paradise

Delta · Post by **Delta** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:18 am

lovely swan

do you think this means I shouldn't be here?

my favorite story Jonathan Livingston Seagull, I always seem to get a gull in a photo even when I'm not trying to. Gull in foreground, snow geese in background.

take flight! snow geese

more snow geese

mine sweeper? dunno, this small vessel has been here for as long as I remember. I have seen vagabonds living aboard, even saw goats on it a few years back.

lesser egret

great white egret

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:27 am

Beautiful photos.

Here's where we are going in a few weeks. We're meeting one of DH's classmates from OH at the gulf. It will be fun to share the bird banding with them. We went years and years ago. I saw my first painted bunting. They gave the Grosbeaks pacifiers.

http://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/FortMorganBanding.html

Delta · Post by **Delta** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:52 am

JLH wrote:Beautiful photos.

Here's where we are going in a few weeks. We're meeting one of DH's classmates from OH at the gulf. It will be fun to share the bird banding with them. We went years and years ago. I saw my first painted bunting. They gave the Grosbeaks pacifiers.

http://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/FortMorganBanding.html

I am jealous. What a great place to spend time doing what you love. I'll have to dig out some of my hummer photo's. I have 10 feeding stations set around the house, our yard is a hummer highway. The painted bunting is stunning, I hope to see one in person someday.

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:17 am

It was pretty exciting for us to see the painted buntings.....We never even knew they existed until we saw them.

It all is very interesting. They have vertical nets set up to catch the birds as they come ashore from migration. People go around and collect the birds caught and put them in little sacks and take them to the banding tent. There they are banded and weighed and recorded. Then they release them. They let the audience members hold and release them if they want to do so.

Did you look at the PDFs for all the birds they caught last spring and fall?

Delta · Post by **Delta** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:55 am

yes, I've been looking them up one by one to see what they look like

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:54 pm

Wow, you sure ARE a birder........