Wed, May 3

Clear. 22F @ 7am

DC and I walked the refuge off the higlands loop. We first went up towards the tank nest and found the cora nesting in the '04 nest. One of the pair was banded and I thought it was the female. She flew off the nest when DC went below the nest. On the way up we found the nest in a low aspen was occupied by a RTHA. We saw a copulation and greens on the nest, but no INC.

Checked on the NER nest up on the NE corner. Found a new unknown nest in a doug fir. The '05 cora nest was not acvtive and after a bit of searching found a new one in a subapline fir down at the western base of the patch. On the way back I flushed a RT off the '05 nest on the western side of the draw. D walked over to the other CORA nest he found last year, but no birds were on it. I confirmed the nest I thought up by Ds house in a engleman. I checked the highlands nest and a RTHA is now using it. It was built up, new sprigs were on it, and the bird screamed at me.

I went to Indian Springs and found an old RT nest in an aspen and an unk nest in a spruce.