Atlantic Bird Observatory 2

I returned to band birds off the southern shore of Nova Scotia for the fall of 2008

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Blackburnian Warbler	Canada Warbler	Looking out over the water toward the mainland	The wharf
Prairie Warbler	Warbling Vireo	Ovenbird	The house at the southern end of the island
Sunset over the ocean	One of the ponds on Bon Portage	A small freshwater pond	Salt Water Pond, on the northern tip of the island
The middle of the southern half of the island has been hit hard by insects and fire	A Swamp Sparrow patiently awaits extraction from the mist net	Though most of the tree cover is quite stunted, there are a few very large trees scattered over the island	Lying very low, with little change in elevation, much of the island's interior is extremely wet.
There was an incredible variety of mosses and other aquatic plants	I probably took 30 pictures of this area!	With a good pair of rubber boots, walking through this kind of habitat is quite fun	The moss diversity was incredible
The southern tip of the island	From the southern tip, looking north	Common Yellowthroat	The buildings of at the southern end
The lighthouse	Salt Water pond, on the northern end	Saltwater pond, with the mainland of Nova Scotia visible in the background	The northern end
Spider web in the mist	Some of the dying alders and viburnums are so covered with spider webs you can hardly see past them!	The wharf at low tide	Leach's Storm-petrel
The "boardwalk" through the net lanes	Hurricane Kyle	The trail to the west side	The Graveyard, twisted balls of rope and smashed lobster traps collect on the southwestern shore
The day after the hurricane there were hundreds and hundreds of gulls around the island	The wharf	One of the nets in "the burn", a treeless pocket of shrubs	Looking north toward the mainland
The boathouse and the ever-sagging clothesline	The buildings at the southern end.	This little guy was sitting beside the trail one day as we were checking nets	Low tide reveals mats of rockweed covering all the rocks.
The Eider, the small boat used to run supplies and people to and from the mainland	Taking the outboard across the channel to the mainland	Lucas pulling a bird out of the band to band, while Ingrid scribes	Hairy Woodpecker. Ingrid's fingers were quite bloodied after extracting this guy. Apparently he didn't like being handled...
Sunset over the west trail	I went hiking in Cape Chignecto on the way home	Fall foliage in Cape Chignecto	The rocky shoreline of the Bay of Fundy
I camped near Amherst, Nova Scotia and woke up to this incredible sunrise	Marshes and farms in the light of a new day	The boardwalk at the Sackville Waterfowl Park	The leaves of the Birches. There was not alot of colour change on the island, so the colours on the drive home were quite enjoyed
	A small lake outside of Gorham, New Hampshire	A photo that I took for Limestone Financial's webpage