A selection of wildlife and plant matter...
Project wise things are...well, let's say slow. I don't know if there is some freak weather system going on (again) or if it is always insanely windy here, but it has been, for lack of a better word, insanely windy. I would go with 15-20mph on the regular with stronger gusts. Doesn't mix well with mist-nets, which means not a lot of birds in the nets, and therefore fewer with transmitters. Wah wah.
We did manage to catch one little fellow on the one day it was calm. Also, turned out to be the one day that the coffee plants were getting a little fertilizer fog. Made for an interesting morning, trying to get a transmitter on a bird and take the nets down before the fog machines descended. Yes, we were the crazy white chics dashing frantically around the coffee field to close nets. At that point we didn't really know what the plants were being fogged with either... It was border line apocalyptic, that's all.
Other than that, there has been a lot of wandering around in the woods looking for birds and contemplating how we might lure them out of the canopy... As a result, we've seen a lot of other things too.
Oh hey, bellbird way up in the tree. Not quite as awesome as the pictures I pilfered from the internet but I did actually see this guy.
Glasswing? I vote it should be called that at least.
The hungry caterpillar strikes again...
The hungry tree strikes?
"Trail signs are delicious, nom nom nom"
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