...is a naturalist living and working in Western New York.
After working ten years at an Audubon Center I decided I want to become a bird bander. Squeezing the training in between work and a home life isn't easy, but it sure is rewarding.
This blog is about my journey toward that goal. Read more about my gradual entry into birding and bird banding by clicking here.
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
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Due to circumstances far too tedious to list, I arrived at Tom LeBlanc’s SWAT banding station later than I had intended on opening day (May 30) – maybe 8:30 a.m. or so… Tom and his team had already banded and released many birds. SWAT is a MAPS banding station. MAPS stands for Monitoring Avian Productivity [...]
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Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 6:30am – 11:30am
Weather: Mixed clouds, sun, some rain, quite cool
Banders and Assistants: Scott Stoleson, Don Watts, Emily Thomas, Amy Morrison
I showed up at Audubon at 6:30am expecting a rather long day of observing and MAYBE recording data for the bird banders. Was I ever in for [...]
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