Hatch year northern cardinal with pinfeathers in molting crown

Several nets in an open field

The banding team and visitors

Bands or as our cross-Atlantic cousins would say, Rings

Bands and banding pliers

Cardinal in net
This bird was unhappy
most just lay in the net

Willow/Alder Flycatcher

most birds are docile. Some cards are not docile.
Although he may have upset because of his hair.

This After Hatching Year male American Towhee seemed to be shedding every feather at once.

Lichens on a rock

Gray Catbird being banded

Magnolia Warbler ready for release

Chestnut-sided Warbler being examined

Young folks from Clear-Creek Amana watching the banding.
Rob Bradley [light tee] is talking.

Magnolia Warbler

Growth Bars on Hatching Year Gray Catbird

Cardinal

despite wing chord measurement
this Empidonax could not be speciated
Willow/Alder Flycatcher

Willow/Alder Flycatcher
Buffy wing bars identify it as a hatch year.

Banding Records

Northern Waterthrush

Field Sparrow
Hatching Year

Magnolia Warbler, tail spots

underside of Magnolia Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Hatching Year Red-eyed Vireo

Swainson's Thrush

Chestnut-sided Warbler

detail of Chestnut-sided Warbler

the bands fit loose

Rob Bradley and young folk

Willow/Alder Flycatcher

Northern Waterthrush

Common Yellowthroat [hatching year male]

Chestnut-sided Warbler

after hatching year male Nashville Warbler
Even in hand the reddish spot on the head is not impressive

Release -1"

Release +1"

series clipped from video

The end of a successful banding

Moss in rotten tree

Fungi

Mushrooms