10 May 2006
09 May 2006
Tues, May 9
Sunny and chilly. 32F @ 7am.
Office in am. Got the GPS and PTT locations all straighted out and caught up.
DC and I went to town and checked to see if Bickner was ready for banding. There were at least 3 chicks that needed a few more days.
Banded Mead nest. 4 chicks about perfect banding age. Added a pink wrap-around band above the usgs band to signify town birds. Neither ad banded. I looked hard for egg shells and found none. There was a bunch of dog/elk hair in the nest and it also had a lot of thick brown paper as nest lining (maybe from an old mail envelope). I stayed in the tree while DC banded and took blood.
Office in am. Got the GPS and PTT locations all straighted out and caught up.
DC and I went to town and checked to see if Bickner was ready for banding. There were at least 3 chicks that needed a few more days.
Banded Mead nest. 4 chicks about perfect banding age. Added a pink wrap-around band above the usgs band to signify town birds. Neither ad banded. I looked hard for egg shells and found none. There was a bunch of dog/elk hair in the nest and it also had a lot of thick brown paper as nest lining (maybe from an old mail envelope). I stayed in the tree while DC banded and took blood.
Mon, May 8
Rainy all day. 23F @ 7am.
Jill checked on the nest by the cattle grate on the groy rd. Nothing in it. We walked Ditch Ck from the moutlon barns to TSS. Confirmed the goose nest in the '04 rtha nest. Saw a raven go over a perch above it for a while. Confirmed the hayfields nest INC. Jill found a new unk nest by the confluence of the two creek braids. Saw a orange banded raven eating by the bridge. We gave it some food and it flew off the the NE (maybe towards the hunter barns?). No ravens on the creek. Found a pair of GHOW by the upper RT nest. Both RT by that nest as well, but not INC. likely in the '05 nest.
Saw a Bairds Sparrow in the burn area.
Worked on the gender analysis and wrote an abstract for Jeannette.
10 ravens at Bubba's last night around 5:15 pm. Got one band read - orange right sideup U.
Jill checked on the nest by the cattle grate on the groy rd. Nothing in it. We walked Ditch Ck from the moutlon barns to TSS. Confirmed the goose nest in the '04 rtha nest. Saw a raven go over a perch above it for a while. Confirmed the hayfields nest INC. Jill found a new unk nest by the confluence of the two creek braids. Saw a orange banded raven eating by the bridge. We gave it some food and it flew off the the NE (maybe towards the hunter barns?). No ravens on the creek. Found a pair of GHOW by the upper RT nest. Both RT by that nest as well, but not INC. likely in the '05 nest.
Saw a Bairds Sparrow in the burn area.
Worked on the gender analysis and wrote an abstract for Jeannette.
10 ravens at Bubba's last night around 5:15 pm. Got one band read - orange right sideup U.
07 May 2006
Sun, May 7
Rode on my bike around the east side of town, east of redmond looking for crow nests. Found 5. NER HQ building, hopsital INC, Redmond INC, another building on the small loop street and a suspected INC in the big open lot.
Walked with Jon up the shadow upper gully. Confirmed the RT INC. Nothing seen or heard up the gully. On the way down, we saw the upper bird INC on the lower POTR nest.
Walked with Jon up the shadow upper gully. Confirmed the RT INC. Nothing seen or heard up the gully. On the way down, we saw the upper bird INC on the lower POTR nest.
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