Hi all, Amy here. Charlotte and I have been working hard doing our very exciting vegetation surveys out at our study site at canyon creek on the cornwall ranch (valley county, MT). If you read that and thought “vegetation? Boring.†You were wrong! We have seen lots of very cool plants thus far, and lots of birds along the way.
amy in the "cottonwood forest" part of the site.
charlotte checking out some veg.
Milk thistle with a butterfly.
Goat's beard.
A snowberry blossom.
Even when we aren’t banding, we see lots of birds at our site and on the ranch we drive through to get to it. These are some of them:
American goldfinch on the tree outside our trailer.
We saw an eastern kingbird this morning.
This is a swainsons hawk. It had two smaller birds following it, and we think maybe they were juveniles.
Mystery bird on a telephone pole in our trailer park. It had a white streak on its back when it flew. If you have any idea what it is, let us know!
Sometimes we find nests at our site.
This is the nest of a western meadowlark with four eggs in it. They were still warm when we got there.
Charlotte and the meadowlark nest.
And sometimes we see things that are neither bird nor plant.
This is a dead porcupine in a tree.
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When we are done for the day, we leave!
charlotte drives.
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