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Blackpoll Migration thru Lancaster County
I felt like I was hearing a lot of Blackpoll Warblers earlier than expected this year so I dug thru some data on eBird and found that they are actually right on time. First reports start coming in the first week of May if you look at the average birds reported per hour over all [...]
They can’t all spend the night..
And so we learned with a recent saw-whet that we attempted to track. She was released from the banding station at around 10pm and we tracked her for several hours but by 3 am she was gone, presumably having flown to the south out of range of our equipment. This is a picture of Feist, [...]
Eastern Screech Owl
This is one of the eastern screech owls we have caught at the saw-whet banding operations. There are usually one or two that get curious enough each year to get caught in the nets.
Fall Owl job
A couple weeks ago I started at a new job as the field tech for the Northern Saw-whet Owl telemetry project run by the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in central PA. So far most of the time has been spent training and waiting for the owls to begin migrating thru our area. [...]
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