If Black-throated Blues are Here, Fall is Near

Even though the autumn equinox has not yet occurred and you’re still wistfully packing your bags for one last summer fling at the beach this weekend, billions of songbirds have started the silent nocturnal procession south.  Though we are not lucky enough to be graced by the steely gray tuxedos of the dapper Black-throated Blue…

Monitoring Songbirds On the Move: Rushton Banding Station’s Eighth Autumn

The last day of August was the inauguration of our eighth fall banding season at Rushton Woods Preserve.  Aside from the hemispheric wave of billions of songbirds south on the heels of the retreating summer, there is another local rhythm of which we banders are lucky to be a part.  If an extraterrestrial being were…