Please join us in celebrating today as the 30th anniversary of the first bird ever banded at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History--a female Common Grackle trapped on 28 June 1982. As of this morning at 10:50 a.m. we've caught 899 more grackles and a total of 57,514 birds of 126 species (including 4,491 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds)--not a bad record for three decades of work at the most active year-round bird banding station in the Carolinas. :-)
Happy Birding! BILL P.S. Please "Like" our new Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/HiltonPond for timely updates on nature topics. ========= RESEARCH PROGRAM c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA office & cell (803) 684-5852 fax (803) 684-0255 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 ==================
