Doh! All the good banding happens when I'm not around!
Okay, I really need to get to bed and get my stuff together for tomorrow, but Larry Sirvio sent me some photos of some pretty incredible birds that they got at Carpenter today. One I'm going to save, I might use it as a contest but this is just a wow:
How the heck do you get a ruby-throated hummingbird out of a net? Remember, banding every Friday morning at Carpenter--free and open to the public. Now that migration is under way, it could get very intersting. I won't be there next Friday again because of Game Fair again so chances are good some more cool stuff will come in.
How the heck do you get a ruby-throated hummingbird out of a net? Remember, banding every Friday morning at Carpenter--free and open to the public. Now that migration is under way, it could get very intersting. I won't be there next Friday again because of Game Fair again so chances are good some more cool stuff will come in.
posted by birdchick at 9:33 PM
5 Comments:
Jeez...how DOES one get a hummer out of a net?
Very carefully?
They are so small, you can sometimes push them right through the mesh of the mist net.
Do they have bands small enough to band hummingbirds? Wow, that's cool!
=^..^=
Yvonne
I've only seen them trapped with a trap http://www.amazilia.net/MIHummerNet/Capture.htm
but the website does show mist nets. The guy that does this in Georgia has a cool remote control that will shut the door automagically from a few feet away. Very cool to watch. Then he gives them a drink:
http://www.wingsoverga.com/images/hummerfest062.jpg
before he sends them on his way.
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