Band Return...

Rubberhead* · 11-12-2017, 09:19 PM

Photographed this guy on the Cooper River...I didn't notice it was banded until I got home and looked at the photo. I was able to get the number off of the yellow marker (I fuzzed it out)...

I got the certificate back... the little guy learned to fly and then flew at least 800 miles in just 94 days. Birds are amazing...

**Relentlous** · 11-12-2017, 09:25 PM

That's so cool!

**Scruggz** · 11-12-2017, 09:26 PM

Awesome. I look forward to your posts.

**JABIII** · 11-12-2017, 09:28 PM

Very cool. Shooting the old homeplace I see. Will make the Old Man happy to see this one...

**We Jeep Inn** · 11-12-2017, 09:56 PM

That's awesome.

**DJP** · 11-12-2017, 10:27 PM

Amazing. Read the band by the photo. That is impressive.

**WNM** · 11-13-2017, 09:00 AM

Awesome. I often don't think about it, but so many birds are migrators. Seeing and identifying songbirds from the deer stand and looking at their ranges is eye-opening.

**Whaler_Dave** · 11-13-2017, 09:28 AM

Good catch RH!

**PharmHunter** · 11-13-2017, 09:45 AM

Very cool RH!

Rubberhead* · 11-13-2017, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by DJP

Amazing. Read the band by the photo. That is impressive.

Thanks but it wasn't the band - it was the yellow ID marker on its right leg. I blurred it and took it off of the band cert just to keep someone that might see it on Flickr from submitting a false sighting.

**Tater** · 11-13-2017, 10:09 AM

Did you send them a picture of the bird?

Rubberhead* · 11-13-2017, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Tater

Did you send them a picture of the bird?

Yep - the online form to report a marked bird has a place to attach a photo.

**Tater** · 11-13-2017, 11:36 AM

Awesome! If I was the lady that banded it I would frame it and hang it prominently. It's as much or more of a treasure for her as you.

**Duckman#1** · 11-13-2017, 05:36 PM

You just caused to death of thousands of terns on Saturday

**JABIII** · 11-13-2017, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by Duckman#1

You just caused to death of thousands of terns on Saturday

Ternabout is fair play...

**Glenn** · 11-13-2017, 06:27 PM

Feather they deserve it or not.

**Tater** · 11-13-2017, 07:02 PM

Ed Zern told me a story one time where they found a bunch of pot and destroyed it at a NWR in Oregon by burning it. Didn't end well for the authorities though as not a tern was left unstoned.