We're a little late in announcing it, but during the first week of December we reached an auspicious milestone by banding our 50,000th bird at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History.
For a description of that bird and a photo essay about some things we've learned from our long-term banding program, please visit the 1-7 December 2007 installment of "This Week at Hilton Pond" at http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek071201.html As always we include a tally of birds banded and recaptured during the period, with assorted nature notes and info about the York/Rock Hill Christmas Bird Count scheduled for this Saturday, 22 December. Happy Nature Watching! BILL -- RESEARCH PROGRAM c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net): Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org **********
