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| Nest With the Birds is an
annual birding week that always starts on Mother's Day. This year the week
started out very windy but soon birds were everywhere. |
Larry Rosche, Field
Biologist for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, joined us for an
afternoon program on birds, bugs, dragonflies and butterflies. |
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| Lori Hayes, KIAC Program
Coordinator, making a few announcements after the daily 1:00 p.m. program.
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Ona's daughter has made
this an annual vacation and a way to celebrate Mother's Day in treating
her mom to a birding trip on Kelleys Island. |
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| The daily am and pm bird
walks visited a different Nature Preserve or State Park trail each time.
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Larry Rosche led a group
to one of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's preserves.
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| The east shoreline was
banked with zebra mussels that had washed up. |
Birding is more listening
than looking sometimes. |
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| At this location we were
treated to several good, close looks at Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided,
Bay-breasted, and Redstart Warblers. |
John Pogacnik walked us
through spring migration starting us out in February. |
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| John knows the island
well by winter. He has done the annual Christmas Bird count here for
over 20 years. |
Dusk on Kelleys Island is
so peaceful and magical. |
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| Well, a new day and a new
bird! |
Had a Golden-winged
Warbler today. |
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| KIAC volunteer, Gretchen
Larson, manning the sale and information table. |
We got some Forester's
Terns and a very good look at a Common Loon who was on the inside of the
fishing wharf. |
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| We birded at the Glacial
Grooves State Memorial. Baltimore Orioles were very active, flying
back and forth across the grooves. |
This is a perfect time of
year to see
the Lakeside Daisy in bloom on
Kelleys Island. |
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| The east shoreline turned
up a Bufflehead or two. |
Kevin Metcalf, Cleveland
Metroparks Naturalist, joined us on Friday. |
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| Hoping to hear a
Kirtland's Warbler this year, but no such luck. |
Common Blue Violets were
all in bloom throughout the island. |
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| Bird banding started late
afternoon on Friday and continued on Saturday. |
Tom Bartlett, master
bander, manages this project for us on Kelleys Island. |
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| Could not pass up this
beautiful Wild Columbine in bloom on the North Shore Loop Trail at the
State Park. |
A Baltimore Oriole was
netted and banded at the Long Point banding station. |
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| Byron, Kay and Lou seeing
each other again at the spring banding. |
Lou, with a thrush. |
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| This Magnolia Warbler was
very photogenic! |
Just waiting for the bird
to take off in flight after being measured, weighed and banded. |
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| Visiting a spring banding
operation gives you the opportunity to see the magnificent warblers up
close. |
Banding volunteers help
with untangling the birds from the nets. |
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| These nets are so fine
you can hardly see them... |
..which holds true for
the birds too. |
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| Visitors are able to take
in the entire operation. |
Even a few Daffodils
cooperated this week! |
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| 98 birds were
banded this spring with over 25 different species. |
