Another day of sunny windy weather resulted in low success. Three birds before 8 AM and then nothing. Two of the birds were recaptures, a Northern Cardinal and a Black-capped Chickadee.
With nothing new to report, I thought I'd share something from Thursday's banding at Erie Bluffs.
Mist nets are designed to be as invisible as possible. They're fragile and a large bird (e.g. Ruffed Grouse) can fly right through them. I'm alway on the lookout for anything that might cause them serious damage, like this white-tailed deer.
It was about 100 yards away and not too worried about me.
20 minutes later I was checking my nets and saw it browsing along the forest floor.
It was completely unafraid and kept on getting closer to me and the nets.
At this point I was worried that it'd spook and run right through one of the nets, so I stood quietly and watched it approach the net lanes.
After sniffing the net poles and taking a good look at the nets, it very carefully walked between the nets,
and strolled down the hill without disturbing the nets.
Thank You!
With nothing new to report, I thought I'd share something from Thursday's banding at Erie Bluffs.
Mist nets are designed to be as invisible as possible. They're fragile and a large bird (e.g. Ruffed Grouse) can fly right through them. I'm alway on the lookout for anything that might cause them serious damage, like this white-tailed deer.
It was about 100 yards away and not too worried about me.
20 minutes later I was checking my nets and saw it browsing along the forest floor.
It was completely unafraid and kept on getting closer to me and the nets.
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| Here about 15' from me on the other side of the mist net |
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| Inspecting the net poles |
After sniffing the net poles and taking a good look at the nets, it very carefully walked between the nets,
and strolled down the hill without disturbing the nets.
Thank You!