Wildlife@Gettysburg College

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDIUJhPXoc)

Juvenile Prairie Falcon landed on the roof of Science Center at Gettysburg College, this lunchtime (8/25/2016). Unfortunately, looks to be an escaped falconers bird, you can see falconers “anklets” on the bird when it lifts off.

2,000 ornithologists @ North American Ornithological Conference. Washington DC, August 2016

https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/heres-why-drones-don-t-always-deserve-the-bad-rap-f40596775601#.7qvu36t0g

Today’s Wildlife Ecology field trip to Conowingo Dam, Maryland. 42 Bald Eagles in this photo, less than a third of the total number present!

Composite shot of three images from one of the camera traps in our ES302 Wildlife Ecology class. Raccoons, Red Fox and a eastern Coyote, or Coywolf as many mammalogists now believe we should call them! Eastern Coyotes have about 25% wolf parentage, and 10% domestic dog!

A Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus is visiting local a birder’s (Deb Siefken) hummingbird feeder in Adams County, PA. I was lucky enough to photograph it this morning. This western hummingbird species is a rare but regular visitor to the east states in late Fall. Finding them is made easier by the fact that the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds Archilochus colubris that nest in eastern North America have (mostly) departed to Central America, where they spend the winter. Identification of this bird was confirmed “in-the-hand” by famous ornithologist Scott Weidensaul. It’s an adult female.

Counting kidney beans and marshmallows #whatecologistsdo

This is great! Well done Dr. Lanham

Beautiful day to be out in the field! Setting up Camera Traps with my ES-302 Wildlife Ecology class