Week 1

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the blog for Rocky Point Bird Observatory for 2010.

My name is Jessie Fanucchi and I am this year's intern. I am ecstatic to be working with this year's Bander-in-Charge Brian Pomfret.

Migration monitoring started on July 21 so we are about a week in.

Here are some highlights:

Black-headed Grosbeak - July 24

We have caught 2 BHGR this week, one juvenile and one adult male.

Marsh Wren - July 26

There are a few MAWR hanging around at the front pond. It took 3 days for them to finally go in the net!

And finally....

Northern Pygmy-Owl - July 26

Yes we caught another NOPO this year. I was quite happy to be able to pull this little, tail-less guy out of net 11.

We've been catching around 30 birds a day with our slowest day so far being 17 birds. We have caught around 250 birds so far and 33 species in total. Things are going well despite damage to two nets caused by deer over the last few days.

Census and obs have turned up 4 Brant on day 1, a couple of Merlin, Sora and Virginia Rail, a Semipalmated Plover, Heermann's Gulls, Common Nighthawks, and Hutton's, Cassin's and Warbling Vireo.


Hope to see you out soon!