We are alive!
I have yet to introduce the Country Island crew… there are three of us for the time being; the lovely Charmaine Holloway, the awesome field manager Megan Boucher, and myself(other people will come and go, and a fourth person will join us in mid-late June)...
I have yet to introduce the Country Island crew… there are three of us for the time being; the lovely Charmaine Holloway, the awesome field manager Megan Boucher, and myself(other people will come and go, and a fourth person will join us in mid-late June)...
It is pretty sweet to be back at Country Island. It looks a lot different than when I was here a couple years ago because a lot of the vegetation is dead, and the green is just starting to show up.
The days are flying by real fast as setting up camp has taken a bit of time (Which is why its taken me so long to update this blog). We’ve got our camp unpacked, our chick feeding blinds in place, Roseate Tern nest boxes are out and prepared, and much more! Our Terns have started to arrive the past couple of days, and now we’re waiting for our Tern babies to settle!!! We still haven’t seen the Roseate though…
In between all our work, we’ve fit in a bit of birding…. We have a goal of beating the Country Island field season record of 92 bird species…. And so far (8 days in) we are at 39 (plus a couple different birds we were unable to identify suck as a cuckoo, an Owl, a likely bonepart’s gull, possible shearwaters etc…)!!!
Some highlights include
Harlequin ducks (We’ve had up to 12 here by the island!!)
A pair of Red Throated Loons (A Lifer)
A Purple Sandpiper (A Lifer)
A Parasitic Jaeger (A Lifer)
A Cuckoo (Species unknown, but I haven’t seen them before!).
A flock of Surf Scoters (First record for the island)
A Yellow Bellied Sapsucker (First record for the island)
A Brown Creeper (First record for the island)
A single Rusty Blackbird (First one seen here since 2002).
Razorbills (Just a really cool bird)
Northern Gannets (Just a really cool bird)
Leach’s Storm Petrel (Just a really cool bird)
and there has been lots of other cool stuff!!
Due to the lack of internet reception and space, I won’t post pictures until my week off in Late May/Early June. Our work is going to start getting into more of a routine, so soon, I should have more time to post more.
Brennan
The days are flying by real fast as setting up camp has taken a bit of time (Which is why its taken me so long to update this blog). We’ve got our camp unpacked, our chick feeding blinds in place, Roseate Tern nest boxes are out and prepared, and much more! Our Terns have started to arrive the past couple of days, and now we’re waiting for our Tern babies to settle!!! We still haven’t seen the Roseate though…
In between all our work, we’ve fit in a bit of birding…. We have a goal of beating the Country Island field season record of 92 bird species…. And so far (8 days in) we are at 39 (plus a couple different birds we were unable to identify suck as a cuckoo, an Owl, a likely bonepart’s gull, possible shearwaters etc…)!!!
Some highlights include
Harlequin ducks (We’ve had up to 12 here by the island!!)
A pair of Red Throated Loons (A Lifer)
A Purple Sandpiper (A Lifer)
A Parasitic Jaeger (A Lifer)
A Cuckoo (Species unknown, but I haven’t seen them before!).
A flock of Surf Scoters (First record for the island)
A Yellow Bellied Sapsucker (First record for the island)
A Brown Creeper (First record for the island)
A single Rusty Blackbird (First one seen here since 2002).
Razorbills (Just a really cool bird)
Northern Gannets (Just a really cool bird)
Leach’s Storm Petrel (Just a really cool bird)
and there has been lots of other cool stuff!!
Due to the lack of internet reception and space, I won’t post pictures until my week off in Late May/Early June. Our work is going to start getting into more of a routine, so soon, I should have more time to post more.
Brennan
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