The fourth of July started out as a wonderful holiday banding birds all morning at the Morse Preserve near Graham! Jerry Broadus and Clarice Clark invited ABC members to watch while a team of 6 banders monitoring about 8 nets collected data on a couple dozen interesting birds including a Hutton’s Vireo, a couple of Bewick’s Wrens, a Pacific-Slope Flycatcher, several Swainson’s Thrushes, Cedar Waxwings, and newly fledged Flickers, among others. A number of ABC’ers and their family members watched and were allowed to release some of the birds.

They’ve invited members of our group back on July 14th for another session! You will love it! (Photos by Laurel Parshall and Diane Yorgason-Quinn)