Love your page! Beautiful pics and updates! I put feeders out the first of May, had hummingbirds today. I'm on the north side of Lake Erie.
Very interesting, well-written newsletter with excellent photos! Thanks for your work, Bill.
We band a lot of birds here in York SC, but seldom do we recapture a bird banded by someone else. That's what happened "This Week at Hilton Pond," when a Pine Siskin (see photo) with an unfamiliar band number entered one of our traps. To read about this long-distance wanderer--and for some...
Pine Siskins came, got banded, and departed somewhat mysteriously "This Week at Hilton Pond," when we also had visits by a hungry hawk (talons below) and a geriatric Purple Finch. And did we mention the Groundhog Day forecast competition results? All this and more are included in photo essay #738...
As revealed in our just-posted Installment #737 of "This Week at Hilton Pond," January was a busy month with lots of birds coming and going--includin g the brightly plumaged Pine Siskin (see attached photo) and a raptor or two intent on eating him. For a look at what we've seen and banded at the...
In yesterday's post we reported the sudden disappearance of Pine Siskins (PISI) from our feeders at Hilton Pond Center. Having banded 348 PISI during the preceding seven days, on 8 Feb 2021 we caught no new ones and saw only three during the entire day. Where'd they go?
Many things in nature are inexplicable, but some seem more confusing than others. That was the case today (8 Feb 2021) when we captured EXACTLY ZERO Pine Siskins at Hilton Pond Center--even though we had all the same traps deployed as on each day so far in February. (See attached photo of several...
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