The golden-cheeked warblers have been here almost a week (first detected in Travis County on 3/4). Today I saw 2 Nashville Warblers, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, and heard 1 Black-and-white Warbler.
Spring is here!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
the birds are back in town
I returned 2/23 and had my crew ready that following Monday, but due to logistical delays we are just getting started. The 1st GCWA was reported in San Antonio on 3/2!!! The 1st in Austin was reported yesterday on 3/4. I took 1 tech out yesterday but we did not detect any GCWAs. Today started out very dismally and I expected the bad weather to preclude us from finding any. But luckily, we stuck it out long enough that the icky weather blew away, and we ended up hearing our 1st GCWA! We resighted him and I verified that he was banded with my naked eye (we did not even have our bins on us!). We went back to the car to retrieve our bins and refound and resighted the male, just in the nick of time since he disappeared soon after.
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