A few days ago as we were coming in to our driveway, we met a car with out of state plates on the narrow state road off of which we live. The lady and man in the car are professors from Indiana State University and North Dakota University. They had come down from the top of the mountain where the Biological Research Station is located and she is in charge of a nearly 40 year long study of the Junco birds. There are two groups of Juncos here right now, both the same species, however some of them stay here year round, the Carolina Juncos and the others migrate, the Dark Eyed Juncos. They were looking for additional locations to place mist nets to catch and band the beautiful little birds. After a delightful talk with them and a hike around our property, we offered them permission to set a net here for their study. This fascinates me and now I am on the constant lookout for the little gray birds.
This morning, the swifts started making their initial recon visit for nest making purposes. I am now going to have to be on the alert to keep them from building against the logs.
In spite of the glory of today, I know that this is just a tease, next week brings snow showers, rain and freezing temperatures at night again.
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