Today I worked with the mist nets, and we had a successful day catching all of the common finches that are around the Charles Darwin Research Station: small, medium, and large ground finch, cactus finch, vegetarian finch, and small tree finch. The volunteers were particularly happy to see a large ground finch compared to a small ground finch because it was quite an opportunity to see the differences in beak size. We had a very busy morning and closed the nets before 8 am because we had so many birds!
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| A successful day in the field! |
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| Packing up the mist net poles |
Back at the house after lunch, the volunteers settled into entering their data and prepping everything for the next day.
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| Entering data and getting ready for the next day... |
This included fixing some equipment such as our carrying case for our mist net poles and fixing some holes (cue Beatles Song) in our mist nets.
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| Fixing the mist net pole bag. |
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| Can you spot the mist net? |
And in case you ever see birds with their feathers fluffed out and basically rolling around in the dirt, they are likely trying to clean themselves and get rid parasites.
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