Thursday Afternoon Kinglet
Because, not everyone gets to see the ruby on the ruby-crowned kinglet, enjoy:
posted by birdchick at 12:45 PM
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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9 Comments:
How cute! I love that ruby-coloured surprise when you have them in the hand!
Do you ever have any problems with the kinglets when banding, Birdchick? At our station, we've found that the last bunch of kinglets going through seem awfully prone to getting shocky/stressed. Lately, we seem to be releasing half of them at the net, unbanded. We think it's because the later migrants are..well...running late, meaning that they're not as healthy or sturdy in the first place (hence their tardiness). Have you ever had the same kind of problem?
Nicki
He's adorable! Have you seen the hummingbird hand feeding email that's going around? A lady in Louisiana holds a dish of sugar water in her hand while a male ruby-throated hummer and three of his girls sip out of it. I'd send you a link, but got it in email, and I'm not sure how to do that-- it's worth seeing!
:D
I see your Thursday Kinglet and raise you two male rusty blackbirds.
Nice photo as usual! As noted in Nicki's post, at my banding stations I keep track of incoming Ruby-crowned Kinglets and they get moved to "the front of the line" just for the shocky/stressed reason noted. American Tree Sparrow is another species we band here in MN that gets the same treatment.
NICE! Kinglets are soooo hard to photograph in flight/in trees. You got a nice close-up.
Sweeet! We had one today at the banding station here at Presque Isle State Par, but mostly we got golden-crowneds. In response to Nicki's comment, they do get "cold" easily and our lead bander seems to think it is because they are so tiny and it is getting cooler. We work as quickly as possible with them and even then they sometimes just sit close by after being let loose, fluff up and then take off after a few minutes.
Good to know we're not the only ones seeing this in kinglets! I'm always interested in hearing about other people's experiences banding :)
Mark and other banders - thanks so much for stepping in and answering this question. I've been running around like chicken with my head cut off prepping for Ohio.
Like the other banders have said, we band kinglets pretty quick. I haven't banded that many, but I'd rather do a kinglet than a Traill's flycatcer any day of the week--they stress out super quick.
The yellow feet in the picture are even better than the ruby crown!
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