California Gardening: Hummingbird Adventures #6, 1 by ducbucln

ducbucln wrote:
Last Sunday was so interesting to me because I was participating in another hummingbird banding session. We have them twice a month from March until October and if you can stand getting up at 3:30 a.m. and driving for 45 minutes out into the middle of nowhere in the mountains, then this is the perfect volunteer job for you.

This particular weekend, we trapped 43 hummers, 31 of those were recaptures (or previously banded birds). 8 of the recaptures were birds that had been banded earlier that morning and I guess they didn't mind the personal attention we give each one. The biggest excitement was that one bird had been banded here in 2007.

Here's just a few photos from previous sessions-no time this week for more photos, but next time I'll try to get more.

First thing is to hang a cloth net over a feeder. (We have 4 feeders out earlier in the week, then at trapping time, we pull two down and use the other two for trapping the birds)