It is usually around this time of year that new blog posts start to appear from the Cabot Head Research Station, with the same mix of regularity and unpredictability of bird migration. Normally, our 15 mist nets would be up-and-running …
Back by popular demand! This is our every day view from the station, ever changing, ever different… Whispers of fog: Rolling clouds: Storm brewing: Approaching darkness: The golden dawn:
The newly fledged American Redstart: For comparison, a Hatch-Year American Redstart (after the juvenile moult): And the First-of-Fall Wilson’s Warbler: