Period 7 - July 8th 2023

Apologies for the delay all, let's see if I can remember what happened!

Ah yes. Baby Quail day. Baby Song Sparrow day (one of many). Oak Titmouse day!

Temperatures are on the rise, and the ground is drying out. It's getting increasingly difficult to hammer in our poles but we plow ahead nonetheless.

I've found that the change in vegetation has been surprisingly fun to observe; where wildflowers once littered the ground, we are now dragging our boots through rope-like mustard stems, and the poison oak is glistening. Our trail-marker-thistle between net 15 and 14 is now a crusty shell of its former self.

We had a couple of new faces: CalTrans biologists Shelby and AnnMarie. Thank you for joining us!

New Captures: Western Flycatcher: 1 Song Sparrow: 16 Swainson's Thrush: 5 Oak Titmouse: 1

California Towhee: 2

Spotted Towhee: 4

Orange-crowned Warbler: 1 Wilson's Warbler: 6 Bewick's Wren: 1 Wrentit: 2

Recaptures: Song Sparrow: 6 California Towhee: 2

Spotted Towhee: 2 Orange-crowned Warbler: 1 House Wren: 1 Wrentit: 1

Unbanded: Allen's Hummingbird: 1

California Quail: 1

Song Sparrow: 1 Spotted Towhee: 1

Bewick's Wren: 1 Totals: New Captures: 39 Recaptures: 13 Unbanded: 5 Number of Species: 13 Number of Feather Pulls for Genoscape Project: 4 Number of Birds Caught: 57

2023 Running Tally: Season New Captures: 246 Season Recaptures: 93 Season Unbanded: 37 Season Total: 376 Humans: 7 Banders: Jodi Isaacs Clint Francis Jocelynn Marriott Visitors: Emma Buckley Eva Moylan

Shelby Sanchez

AnnMarie Blackburn