Last bird! take a guess as to what it is (photo by Miriam Avello)
(Nov 7) Since 2020 insists on continuing to be weird we are ending the season under a tropical storm warning. We were expecting to be taking the nets down in the pouring rain but it held off all morning, allowing us to band until we were ready to stop. The wind was up and the skies were overcast, layered and complex like they get when something tropical is coming. I heard a thrush call while I opened nets in the dark, and when I came back by the first net I had opened, she was captured already. A very small Catharus; she measured out as a pure Bicknell’s and was our second of the season, breaking records for yet another species that is usually migrating out over the open Atlantic.
