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03/12/2024

03/12/2024

The beauty of Switzerland☘☘♥

03/12/2024

Amazing!!! Beautiful Cherry Blossom With Mount Fuji 🗻 - Japan ❤️

03/04/2024

Petrified Wood with Opal

03/04/2024

Yamaguchi, Japan 🌸🌸💙

03/04/2024

It’s that time of year- spring migration has begun for songbirds!

Over the next several weeks, we’ll start to see first-of-year individuals of early-migrating species trickle through our area. Some will pause to refuel before continuing northward migration, and some will choose local nesting territories.

This morning was the first day Powdermill’s ornithologists heard Red-winged Blackbirds singing (🎶 conk-a-REE! 🎶) around the ponds near the banding station, and sure enough, we caught the dapper male pictured here. He already had a band - and upon looking up his band number, we can report that he was banded on March 29, 2023 and aged as a bird that hatched in 2021 or earlier.

As winter progresses to spring, we take notes about what species we see and compare those notes to previous years. With many decades of these data, we can track changes in the timing of migration over the years - the trend is of earlier spring migration since scientists at Powdermill began systematically collecting data in the early 1960s.

All birds are captured and banded under a federal banding permit issued by the Bird Banding Lab, part of the US Geological Survey.

03/04/2024

Beautiful birds 🐦

03/04/2024

The beauty of Japan 🌸🌸♥