Mixed warbler flocks are WILD In 5 hours we caught 13 birds On the last net check? 40 birds! 37 in one net! 1 chickadee and a bunch of warblers: 3 Black-throated Green, 3 Nashville, 2 Am. Redstart, 5 Magnolia, 2 N. Parula, 1 Blue-winged, 1 Blackpoll, 1 Bay-breasted, 21 Tennessee

Bring back our bird banding days (1991/92) in an old field successional habitat just outside Princeton. So many birds I have only seen in the hand

Woot! Y’all are rocking it!

mum's dad used to do banding and my fav part was getting to give the birds a little pat before he let them go

Edit: actually check out that golden wing bar on that Blue-winged Warbler, it’s definitely got some recent Golden-winged Warbler (hybrid) ancestry!

Ugh I’m getting anxious just to think about the sisyphean task of removing 37 birds from a single net! All the other little guys getting more and more entangled as you work on each one

THEY'RE SO SWEET AND TINY!!!!!

This is my first season really appreciating warblers. The local Land Trust has a bird blind that has allowed so many people to enjoy these little wonders!