A Piedmont prairie has been established from an old cow pasture at the site.



Here we are opening nets for the morning. The furled mist-net is stretched between 2 poles.


The net is opened by spreading apart the trammels along the pole.
This particular net is a double net, two nets are sharing one pole in the middle.



Once opened, a bag of fine meshed net hangs between the trammel lines.



The bird flies into the net and gets tangled in the mesh.



With help from Melissa, Nathan has just gotten this sparrow out of the net.



After the bird is extracted, it goes into a bird bag and is carried to the banding station.



At Prairie Ridge, we band on the deck of the Outdoor Classroom building.

A total of 11 nets were set up in the prairie and along the forested edge. Nets were opened for about 4 hours and monitored throughout the morning.

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