Hello everyone! I’m gonna share with you all the past few days of my week. The adventures I had and the feelings that came along with it. The post is going to be a little pic heavy but I bet you will enjoy what you get to see!
Kyle has a new job that entitles him to catch and put bands on birds so they can be tracked and studied! Pretty interesting stuff right. Every morning he will have to wake up at 4 or 5 am to get out to the field to get ready to catch some cute little birdies! This needs to be done super early in the morning because birds are most active in the morning when the sun is just starting to rise ๐
On his last day of bird banding near where we live, I decided to tag along for the experience! He always take tons of pictures and I was beginning to get jealous of all the pretty birds >.<
So I woke up at 5 am, he picked me up and we headed out to the farm where they do the catching and banding! A lot of people were going this time around, it basically was a party la!
The whole event went from 5 am till 12 pm! Here are some pictures from previous days and some from that day! Everyone’s camera batteries were dead the day I went so there were only a few pictures from that day ๐
Here is me holding a…….. white crowned sparrow.
Kyle Holding a Gold Finch
Kyle comparing a male baby gold finch to a male adult gold finch. Notice the baby looks more fluffy with more white and the adult has sharper looking wings ๐
Kyle looking super handsome while holding a Cat bird!
I really like the cat bird! It just looks so slick <3
This is a White Breasted Nut Hatch! They are super cute! They hop all around trees on weird angles! ๐ They are pretty talented I’d say.
This is a…. House Wren? Not too sure but House Wrens basically are jerks that go around ruining other birds nests for no apparent reason ๐
*NORTHERN WATER THRUSH*
This is one of Kyle’s worst enemies, the Red Breasted Groas Beak. Kyle and no one is a big fan of these because they bite really hard and attack like crazy when you try to untangle them from the net. Kyle has had sooo many bad bites from them. The day I went it took three of us to untangle one because it was biting so vigorously ๐ I had to put a stick in its beak so it would bite and grind down on that instead of Kyle’s fingers!
I don’t know what this is but it is super cute!!!
*NASHVILLE WARBLER*
This is a Grackle ๐ My family once saved and raised one till it was full grown because we are good bird loving people and saved a fallen baby ๐
This is a …. downy woodpecker? I’m pretty sure it is ๐
Blue Jay!
A closer look at the blue jays wings and how fancy they look ๐
This is a Cow Bird. They are also jerks! Most farmers will kill a female one when ever they see it vulnerable because these birds basically kill off other birds by sneaking around and laying their eggs in other random birds nests. Then the babies hatch before the others and kick all the other eggs out or eat all the food from the mom, making the other babies die. So mean ๐ They are called Cow Birds because they would follow herds of cattle around, which is why they lay eggs in other birds nests, because they don’t have time to make their own nests since they are always on the move.
This is a Baltimore Oriole, I think. Either way super pretty looking!
This is a lovely male Cardinal, He has is head feathers all up because he is super angry ๐
A female Cardinal now. She also has her feathers all up because she is super pissed off hahahahaha!
I can’t remember what this is called but Kyle really likes this one because it too it very cute and pretty ๐
*CHESTNUT SIDED WARBLER*
This is a woodpecker. Not sure on what type ๐
*RED BELLIED WOODPECKER*
This is me holding a Cat Bird yay! I love them ๐ They are called Cat Birds because some of their calls sound like cats!
Me holding the Cat Bird while our friend Chris photo bombs me ๐
On our walk checking the nets we saw a million tadpoles! So I scooped some up for a picture and so did Chris!
Chris apparently is in love with Blue Jays and was sooo pleased to catch one, so we got a picture of him imitating what the bird is doing ๐
Me holding the Blue Jay giving Kyle a funny face hahaha!
Again with the Blue Jay. She had a bunch of bugs in her mouth that she was probably bringing to her nest.
One more of me with the Blue Jay hahaha. I’m starting to look tired now! It’s like 11am haha!
Me trying to let it go but it was being submissive. After it realized it could fly away she did ๐
Me holding the super cute Nut Hatches! The ones that climb around trees on different angles ๐
White Crowned Sparrow
What the almost invisible nets look like! These are what are used to catch the birds for research! You need a permit the do this, if you don’t have one you are breaking the law because bird catching needs to be done by trained people with a professional only for scientific studies! For example if you so happen to catch a Humming Bird you gotta get it out immediately because it will die or explode!!! Humming Birds have such crazy high heart beats and metabolisms that it needs to keep moving always or its body will shut down or explode! Crazyness! We caught two that day and the Master Bander (life time professional) had to run as fast as he could to get the bird out in time! Intense right?
After all that at 12:30pm we all decided to head home and get ready to head into Toronto to visit our friend we all haven’t seen in a month! He travels to Turkey like every summer so this was probably the last time we would see him till the school year begins! We all went out for sushi at a crazy expensive all you can eat place and had amazing food! It was slightly unfortunate for me because for some reason I had zero appetite and could barely eat anything ๐ So I more or less threw $40 down the drain -_____-,
All I ate was 1 miso soup, 2 pieces of yam tempura, 1/4 a plate of pad thia and a bite of beef sashimi. I tasted some of Kyles Thai lemon grass soup because it smelt unreal! I also enjoyed a lovely pot of a jasmine tea. I wish I could have eaten more because the food looked so amazing! But even what I ate I felt like I was forcing it down ๐
I will have to do a separate post on why I find I don’t eat as much anymore!
Everyone orders a crazy amount of food but I only managed to get a few pictures! Here is all the sushi they ordered, I didn’t order any! But it all looked so delicious right?!?!?!
This was Kyles Pad Thai! Looks super good! I got the plain veggy pad thai but didnt get a picture, It was about the same serving size and I only ate 1/4!! >.< So unfortunate!
Our friends lives basically in the heart of Toronto near the lake shore with the perfect close view of the CN Tower! Legit you look out his balcony and see the tower! So unreal! The place is the Pent House and super nice >.< In such a nice safe looking area too! I was shocked! But of course I didn’t take pictures! I should have!!! Such a roocky move!
We stayed late till 11pm then finally headed home back to our west end lives in country land hahahahahaha! We got home around 12 am! Such a crazy long day with no naps! 5am till 1am when I finally got to sleep! I was dead the next day, Could barely keep my eyes open! I wanted to blog this but I was too tired ๐
The past two days for me were really good up until today. I immediately woke up to be lectured about my school debt and how I need work and how my family and I can’t afford the debt……. Instant bad mood. I am already stressed enough that it is almost impossible to find work these days and the fact that my schooling was basically useless for me and just made me lose a ridiculous amount of money for no apparent reason! What has this lead me into? Serious depression….. No job, no money, can’t find work and in major debt. It doesn’t help either that the medication I am currently on can make you feel depressed as well!…. I literally feel so sad and depressed some days that I just break down from all this stress! Now I can’t continue you education because I can’t afford! Oh the horror!
If I still can’t find work within a month I am going to assume the world has a serious issue with the idea of letting me earn money! :P……
Is anyone else in Canada or any country finding it hard to find work or do I just have horrible luck? ๐
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