(2560
x 1920)
Northern (Yellow-shafted)
Flicker
|
(2560
x 1920)
The Breakwater cabin
|
(2560
x 1920)
South Beach at Breakwater
|
(2560
x 1920)
Mike
Boyd performing the
standard "lake watch" at Breakwaterr
|
(2560
x 1920)
View from the Breakwater
ridge
|
(2560
x 1920)
Canada Warbler
|
(2560
x 1920)
Breakwater cabin's
kitchen/living
room
|
(2560
x 1920)
Josh banding a Sharp-shinned
Hawk. |
(2560
x 1920)
From the shoreline, looking
back
toward the Breakwater cabin
|
(2560
x 1920)
Mullein and tumbleweed on a
Breakwater dune
|
(2560
x 1920)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
|
(2560
x 1920)
Sunrise at Old Cut on the
opening
day of duck hunting...
|
(2560
x 1920)
Josh extracting a thrush at
Old Cut
|
(2560
x 1920)
Long Point Provincial Park
|
(2560
x 1920)
Yellow-breasted Chat
|
(2560
x 1920)
Eastern Towhee
|
(2560
x 1920)
Blue-headed Vireo
|
(2560
x 1920)
Black-throated Green Warbler
|
(2560
x 1920)
Nashville Warbler
|
(2560
x 1920)
A Sharp-shinned Hawk
|
(2560
x 1920)
Toward the mainland; the
North
side of The Tip
|
(2560
x 1920)
Jerome takes a step back to
a
simpler time while trying to stall the
Phragmites. He ended up breaking the blade!
|
(2560
x 1920)
The Tip cabin; view from the
Block
Building
|
(2560
x 1920)
Ross and Ted at the Wood's
"timeshare"
|
(2560
x 1920)
A scene from the Muskoka
area at
the timeshare.
|
(2560
x 1920)
White-throated Sparrow
|
(2560
x 1920)
An aerial view of the Long
Point
peninsula; one of the only views I had
that wasn't the floor between my knees!
|
(2560
x 1920)
The Tip from the air... sort
of...
|
(2560
x 1920)
Tufted Titmouse... Rare
enough to
be exciting!
|
(2560
x 1920)
Jerome and Andrea on one
crisp and
clear October morning.
|
(2560
x 1920)
The "slanty shanty"... the
only
option on those days too windy and wet
to band.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Jerome on "lake watch"
|
(2560
x 1920)
The south side of the tip,
toward
Eerie, Pennsylvania
|
(2560
x 1920)
Looking past the mist net
toward
the north side of the Tip.
|
(2560
x 1920)
The ubiquitous
lighthouse.
No one who has been at The Tip
left
without a picture of it!
|
(2560
x 1920)
The block building as seen
from
the path taken for net checks.
|
(2560
x 1920)
An ingenious new arrangement of the hawk nets allowed us to band an
astonishing 11 Long-eared Owls. After all the senior members
got
their tick, I had my chance to band one!
|
(2560
x 1920)
Ross "Hawk-Eye" Wood spotted
an
unfortunate nuthatch, fallen prey to a
Northern Shrike. With such a group of biologists, these
things
gather much interest! ...
|
(2560
x 1920)
This is the unlucky nuthatch
that
was to serve as a Northern Shrike's
prey. It was actually a bird we had banded earlier in the day.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Not only are Northern
Shrikes an
uncommon species at LPBO, until
recently White-breasted Nuthatches were almost unheard of, making this
a very significant event.
|
(2560
x 1920)
A Blue Jay. A
commonly seen
bird in the area, but not often
banding in the fall.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Ross shows off the wound
given to
him by this Merlin. Two
Merlins
were banded on consecutive days, an uncommon thing...
|
(2560
x 1920)
The "Block Building" at The
Tip,
with the lighthouse in the
background. The Block Building was where the banding lab was
located.
|
(2560
x 1920)
The voracious Black-capped
Chickadee. Yes, if you had
extracted
several dozen in a day, you'd call them voracious also!
|
(2560
x 1920)
Northern Saw-whet
Owl.
During the last half of the season,
these
little owls are lured in by tapes and banded. As many as 138
have
been banded in a single night!
|
(2560
x 1920)
Whether or not this was the
Northern Shrike that killed the nuthatch,
we banded it the next day in the adjacent net.
|
(2560
x 1920)
On top of the block
building,
looking out toward the tip.
|
(2560
x 1920)
A typical landscape shot of
the
Tip, looking north form the Tree
Swallow Cabin.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Another view toward the
north.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Stu showing how close you
can get
to a Saw-whet Owl
|
(2560
x 1920)
Fox Sparrow at The Tip
|
(2560
x 1920)
Male Golden-crown Kinglet
|
(2560
x 1920)
Late afternoon at The Tip
|
(2560
x 1920)
Erosion on the south side of
the
Point
|
(2560
x 1920)
The Heligoland Trap,
essentially a
giant funnel with a box on one end
|
(2560
x 1920)
The cabin
|
(2560
x 1920)
Sunrise over Lake Eerie
|
(2560
x 1920)
Banding outside on my last
day at
The Tip
|
(2560
x 1920)
Backus woods; one of the
largest
remaining Carolinian forests in Canada |
(2560
x 1920)
Fall in Backus
|
(2560
x 1920)
Fall in Backus
|
(2560
x 1920)
The "J Trap" at Old Cut,
looking
over the dyke and Long Point Bay.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Nets 12 and 11 at Old Cut,
closed
for the afternoon
|
(2560
x 1920)
Jerome captures an unlikely
souvenir: a picture of the Minnesota plate
on the Grunstmobile
|
(2560
x 1920)
Tulip tree in Backus
|
(2560
x 1920)
Fallen trees on net 3 await
the
executive decision.
|
(2560
x 1920)
Snow on the last day...
|
(2560
x 1920)
The symbolic end to a
season...
|
|
I
stole a few pics from Jerome
before he left...
|
|
|
(2048
x 1536)
Mike holding his prize
Peregrine
Falcon, one of the banding highlights
of the season |
(2048
x
1536)
The only Hooded Warbler
raised
quite a stir.
|
(2048
x 1536)
A typical action shot when
an
interesting bird has been banded.
|
(2048
x 1536)
Dark-eyed (Slate-coloured)
Junco
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