08-26-13 Bird Field Note

08-26-13 Bird Field Note

August 26, 2013

Kate Stone's Field Note shows a great horned owl, Clark's nutcrackers, and bird banding with the Avian Science Center

Kate Stone Field Note 08-16-13

9 We detected fewer migrants during this week’s shrubby draw surveys, though we still saw large groups of vesper sparrows. Several flocks of Clark’s nutcrackers foraged in the pines. Usually a noisy bird, these nutcrackers were mostly silent.

Mountain chickadees

chickadees This young Lewis’s woodpecker needs to molt a few more feathers before turning into a beautiful adult.

Great horned owl

owl A red-tailed hawk flies across the northern center pivot field with a large snake.

Some of the same water resources that attract bats also attract birds. These vesper sparrows joined chipping sparrows, spotted towhees, and a gray catbird at the Whaley Draw spring one evening. The group disappeared soon after dusk.

Clockwise from top: (1) A hatch-year Orange-crowned Warbler, (2) Trish teaching Ben how to do the bander’s grip with a recaptured Gray Catbird, (3) A group of UM and high school teachers attending a science and math teaching workshop led by Professor Hutto of UM.

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