When it comes to finding field work, you've got to be on the ball and apply for jobs a season in advance. Right now, you should have a summer job lined up (if your spring job doesn't continue through summer), and pretty soon, you should start thinking about fall work, as employers start advertising fall positions. Alex and I had so much fun in Arizona and California last summer tracking Yellow-billed Cuckoos that we are going to do it again, starting in mid-July, to end out the summer field work season. I am getting pretty excited to make the trip to California and jam pack in a bunch of work and birding in a month before we have to head back to Pennsylvania for the fall. Yellow-billed Cuckoos are pretty awesome birds to work with, and we should be arriving when the tree tops are full of fledglings and hopefully a few hidden nests! Check out this post about one of our last days of work in Arizona, when we caught a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the net with a praying mantis in its mouth!
Meanwhile, until we get there, check out our friend Tims blog, Words About Birds. Tim just arrived a few days ago to start work on a Willow Flycatcher project, and is living in Blythe, California with some of our co-workers and our bosses Shannon and Diane. He's already got a pretty sweet yard list, living a little closer to trees than we did last summer!
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