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Here’s “Hope” at Great Pond (!!!!)

This is so incredibly cool!

We got an e-mail the other day from an avid St. Croix bird watcher. She and another friend had been at our Great Pond and photographed a whimbrel with a tag on her leg. It turns out that this bird also has a radio attached to her and she has been tracked from Virginia to northern Canada, and then down to here in our backyard.

You can check out her migration path and others here.

And here are a couple of actual photos of this soon-to-be-famous bird at Great Pond:

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You can actually see the radio and antenna in the picture on the left. How cool is that!?!

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2 Responses to “Here’s “Hope” at Great Pond (!!!!)”

  1. Trudi Gilliam Says:
    August 26th, 2009 at 12:16 am

    Very cool, and I love the pictures, thanks for sharing.

  2. Wreggie Says:
    August 26th, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Looks a bit like my migratory pattern.

    Also I couldn’t exactly tell but it appears a lot of birds end up near Southport, NC at one of the many protected “bird islands”.

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