Bird Cams Around the World

After making sure I was not duplicating any of Kim's images, here is a slideshow of the banding from the cam's perspective:

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Thanks Susan, that's great! I'm so glad someone got some pictures from the cam perspective! :)

Sorry but I did a pretty crappy job getting videos! I can't believe I forgot to take a video of one of them being banded!

I was starting to process pictures but my laptop locked up so they may have to wait until tomorrow since I don't have the software on this computer.

Here's one of all the kids when we first opened the back of the nest box. One of them didn't even get up!


This is when Craig is holding up the sign for the kids in the class to see. I love the kid that's closest to him!


This sort of shows one being banded while she's biting on Craig's shirt button.


Red Girl lands on the ledge and you see CJ fly by in the background...


One of the kids waiting to be banded...


All of the kids lined up after being banded...

Great vids Kim!!! Can't wait to see pics too!

I told them to stop hiding in the corners but as you can see, they don't listen very well. :)
Yellow feet got yellow tape on her band!

How cute are we? :)












This is from the back of the nest box.


Here's a picture of the egg that didn't hatch.

It was really nice to see the nest from that different perspective. Thanks for all those videos and pictures, Kim. What a wonderful experience for you. I was surprised Red Girl didn't come into the nest!

Woo Hoo!

Congrats on 4 girls!!!

Great videos, Kim! These girls are just adorable! As you know, Red Girl is from a nest of 4 girls, & those girls drove their parents nuts! Maybe this year she'll see that turnabout is fair play!

Yes, I bet Red Girl and CJ think that they chased the intruders away, and will be more aggressive next year.

Great images, Kim and SusanE.

Nancy, if I knew that about RG being from a nest of 4 females, I had forgotten!

I'll bet the unhatched egg was a male and he said heck if I'm coming out!

I think maybe those kids thought I said to stay IN the corner rather than to stay OUT OF the corner! I don't think they've been out since the banding! At least not for long. I did just see one do a poop shot towards the camera. I guess he was telling us what he thought huh?

Looked at your wonderful pictures earlier, Kim. Just checked the videos. Thanks so much for sharing your experience this afternoon. It was interesting to see that closeup of the unhatched egg, too. And now we know what Craig looks like! Red Girl certainly didn't look like a happy camper. When I looked at the cam a bit ago, could barely see two of the girls in the upper screen corner.

Oh my goodness, they are all so beautiful and Red Girl too.

4 girls. That's going to be a challenge for CJ I bet.
Thanks so much for the videos and photos.

Forgot to mention that I thought it was cool that yellow foot got yellow tape. And I suppose there are now TWO Red Girls in Wilmington? What are the tape colors, Kim? One year in Harrisburg there was one red and one orange tape. Boy, that was hard to tell apart from the ground.

Recently I came across some of Froona's wisdom about the sex of chicks, and if I remember correctly she said the female determines the sex of her eggs and the more females in the bunch, the more the mom feels there is an abundance of food. I'll have to try and find that again to post here.