Thurs, May 25

Checked the Kelly Butte nest. I was unable to see the birds, but they sounded about a week old. The Lobo nest was brooding and the chicks sounded real young.
I walked all of the hill north of the Gros Ventre rd behind the shane cabins. The pair of SWHA were still on the NW end. Nothing else.
Checked the Hunter cabin nest; brooding.
Checked the Barn; 2 young about 1-1.5 weeks old.
Checked the Shadow Campground nest; maybe about a week old.
Elbo; Young; check in 1.5 weeks.
Jill checked the PO and Poney express. PO needs another 5 days or so and the Poney is ready.

Trap and Kati walked the GV from Kelly to the campground, Ditch Cr, and the McCal areas. Nothing.

Wed, May 24

We all went and banded the NER sign nest. 3 Young. I climbed and DC banded. Banded the Path nest. 5 nestlings. Trapper climbed and Dc and I banded. Banded the CRC nest. Got the Haberfelds out. 6 young. DC and I banded. Banded the Cumming nest. 4 young. Trapper climbed and DC and I banded. These guys were a bit smaller (maybe two weeks old while the rest were 3 weeks).

Tues, May 23

Trapper, Kati and I went to watch the Murie Center/Headgates areas. Kati sat up by the headgate nest, I was down in the river bottom, and Trapper was up on windy ridge. I saw a few birds flying back and forth from the old eagle tree towards the Murie center, but wasn't able to get a good read on the birds. I watched one raven go up into a goose nest after the goose left to tray and steal an egg. The goose came back before the raven was able to get the egg or nestlings out. Kati saw birds go into the forest just behind the construction a few times. I walked around there quick and found nothing.
Trapper and I hiked up the south gully and checked the 04 and 05 raven nests. A red-tail was in the 04 nest and the ravens moved to a new nest down at the mouth of the gully in a doug-fir. Dc and Kati walked the Kelly Canyon.

Mon, May 22

Kati came in today.
I took Kati out to look at the study area and show her some of the nesting sites while Trapper sat at the N Gully of BTB. He found nothing. He then went and walked Ditch Creek and found the McReynolds nest failed and an active GHOW in the Magellan nest. Kati and I went to the Island and saw a banded bird on the pole with two others. Two of the birds chased one, then went back into a NEW NEST on the NE side of the island in a lodgepole that is almost impossible to see while you're in the woods. The nest is somewhat visible from the parking area. The female was sitting pretty tight, so I figure we should check again in a wee or two. We went from there to check on the Hayfields nest. The young are pretty small. Check again in 1-2 weeks. We checked on the SE BTB nest and heard the young begging. Sounded pretty young. Check again in 1-2 weeks.

Sun, May 21

Bird walk in the am at TSS.

I went down and walked the N end of the campground and searched around the mile 3 island. There is at least one crow nesting down in the island, if not two. I was unable to locate the nest.

Sat, May 20

Trapper, Derek, Renny, Greg and I went up and banded the museum cliff nest. Renny climbed up first and set up top-ropes. Greg and I climbed up and he took pics while I was up at the nest. There were 3 chicks about 3 weeks old. DC banded.

Fri, May 19

Trapper got in today. We went up and found the nest on high school butte after a few hours of searching. The nest was in a thinner lodgepole. We also found an old nest lower in a big doug-fir. Trapper climbed the nest and found 3 eggs.
We went through the airport subdivision and found that the Solitude nest had failed. It was pulled out by the homeowners and spikes were up in its place. Both of the pair were on a nearby house, and neither were banded. Didn't look too pormising for an alternate nest.
Trapper and I went and banded the TVR nest. 3 young.
We went with Spohie up to the tank nest to band it and trapper climbed up and found really young chicks less than a week old.