The fall banding season is over and winter banding is going at a very unscheduled pace.  I am giving the birds and myself a well deserved holiday and will get more active weather permitting in January.  Now I am spending my time in the yard watching for migrants in my yard and communicating with Baby Girl and Baby Boy.  How many people have pet hummingbirds?

I want to thank all the "band-aides", my banding volunteers who came faithfully out to help this fall.  After doing the numbers it turned out to be a very different but more productive fall than in a few past years.  On our biggest day of 33 birds I am so glad I had help.  There were a few other very busy days and volunteers stayed to the end, scribing, folding nets, putting up all the equipment even when they felt like calling it a day.  I really do appreciate their help. 

I also want to thank the ever supportive staff at Tomoka State Park.  They always are there for me when I have a request, like to move picnic tables to help us out at the banding locations.  They always want to know what I am catching, what's interesting with great enthusiasm.  Thanks to all.