Hey, I'm a Towhee...

So its been a while since my last post but I figure people won't mind because everyone that reads this saw me (for the most part anyways) when I was home for graduation. For those who didn't, sucks to be you.

Anyways, I am now officially no longer a student, at least for the time being. This upcoming winter will be the first winter in my memory that I have not had to get up and go to school, instead I will slightly delay hundreds of birds attempting to go south for the winter and giggle all the while. Graduation was not overly interesting, they really just whipped you through the bubble gym as fast as possible, read out your name, a few pictures were taken, something with a scarfy type sash was done, then you were shuffled off the stage into the back behind a dark curtain. It was all rather boring and over quickly, but I would be kicking myself if I didn't go. The other reason why I went home was to see the family and try to get some hang outs with friends, which was pretty successful even if my family decided to skip out on my visit for most of my time at home.

But I am now back in Oregon, and this time getting here was a breeze, no hold ups at the border (stressed it was a volunteer internship, and that I wasn't taking jobs away from Americans), no planes were delayed, and no baggage was lost. However, I was greeted with the option to either head out camping that night for 3 nights, or spend the night at CPFS (Central point field station, aka - the suburbs) and wake up at like 2 in the morning. I got up at 2. Banding has been going much better, I am getting more confident at getting birds out of the nets and holding them while I gather the data (not nearly so many birds are escaping from my hands). But other than that things while banding have been pretty uneventful....... So I just took like a 3 hour break from writing this thing, people decided to leave their room and join me for a while. I will continue his post later, but its time for bed for me.

Until then

Ayden