Bird Watching: WESTERN HUMMINGBIRDS VOL 1, 1 by ducbucln

ducbucln wrote:
Sorry I had to leave for a while, today is housecleaning day with the hubby.

Pelle, I don't want to remark on the marking process until I talk to the biologists and see how they feel about it.
Another thing, as you can see from our trap (scroll up Begoniacrazii), our's is a soft netting so that when we pull the fish line to release the net, it won't injure a bird that might be close to the edge.

Here's a link to the reserve where we band the hummers. Once there, under Events, Opportunities & News, you can read about the things we do.

http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/McL/index.html


I should have done this all together, but once the netting traps the bird, we place them in a soft net bag and write the exact time that we caught it to prevent holding it too long a time. Sorry, I don't have a video camera. The birds don't move around when in the net and go into their torpor where they just wait patiently for their release.



This message was edited Mar 28, 2009 11:40 AM