Heading north to do some bird banding
Hi All:
Susan and I are about to head to Whitefish Point for three days, Susan will be netting and banding crossbills (we hope) and I will be netting and banding redpolls. We have been getting 75-100 redpolls at our feeders and I believe there are both subspecies of Common Redpoll and also Hoary Redpolls. I'll be measuring wing length, weighing and photographing the birds. Planned photos are rump, total back, under-tail coverts and full frontal. The plumage differences of what's coming to the feeders is pretty astounding.
Two weeks ago redpolls were not on the license that covers me, so we had to release 20-30 birds. That was really frustrating. Looking forward to pulling more of those little beauties from the nets. Then comes the real work.
Also planning on photographing trees for the Michigan Botanists' Big Year. Which is just a fun project.
That's about all. Photos to come pretty soon.
Michael
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Looking forward to seeing your photos, enjoy!
P.S. let me know if you are interested in doing any banding elsewhere (i.e. our (LTC) Vermilion Point Nature Preserve). It would require a snowmobile trip to get there and we could possibly get ours up there for a day.
We will respectfully decline. Typically we have two days to band and our cabin site will keep up plenty busy. I would love to learn more about the TTC Vermilion Point Nature Preserve. We visit Vermilion Point 3-4 times a year and have wondered about the LTC property. Any additional info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the offer and opportunity.
Michael
Absolutely, makes sense!
Thanks for visiting! There is some information on Vermilion Point here: https://landtrust.org/vermilion-point-nature-preserve/
I'm on the LTC staff and I'd be glad to answer any questions should you have any.
Do you have a plant list for the property? We spend a lot of time there and have made many observations and loads of plant photos from the property, actually a lot of insect and lichen photos as well.
Michael
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