Thankfully, it is study day. I can work from home where I am buried in both snow and marking.

This is what trying to walk the dogs looks like here in Sault Ste Marie. In two days we made it a few hundred meters

The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)

It sure did play in Peoria! Congratulations to @acorn_connor for winning an @SCO_SOC student presentation award at #AFOSCOWOS24

Jenn and I are so excited that @acorn_connor is presenting our Ovenbird research in the #AFOSCOWOS24 poster session tonight! Will it play in Peoria? Yes… it’s playing!

I will soon have hoses for watering my vegetable garden! Looks like Robins are ready to fledged. Next year, we will make sure to take anything we actually need out of the lean-to before it is too late

After a hot and humid dawn, the forest put on a light show

Want to do a PhD studying birds and urban ecology? My research team is recruiting a PhD student studying non-breeding ecology and movement of birds in Metro Vancouver, BC, Canada. Based @SFU @SFUBioSci and collaboration with @ECCCSciTech @ECCCWildlifeSci

Connor is up with the sun, collecting recordings of the dawn chorus to study vocal behaviour of migratory warblers near Sault Ste. Marie. A collaborative project with our lab and @TheOVEN_Foote lab. Keep up the great work @acorn_connor! [📷 J. Foote]

I found my first black-throated green warbler nest yesterday. All 3 our team has found are tucked into birch bark.

I am trying to record and follow black-throated green warblers. I almost never actually see one, but I sure have a sore neck tonight. I might have to try using my airplane pillow.

🐦 Our work on higher-order network approaches to study animal (vocal) communication is now out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B🐦‍⬛ Thanks again to the amazing team! @mattjsilk @TheOVEN_Foote Nina Fefferman @ederry1 https://t.co/fzF6BfVqd3

I went camping this weekend and heard whip-poor-will calling from across the lake. Sadly, this is such a rare treat even in the wilds of Northern Ontario

Connor Acorn has started a field expedition studying Ovenbirds in the Hiawatha Highlands. Connor studies social communication and sound amplitude in migratory warblers. 🔉🔊🐦 It is a joint project with our lab and @TheOVEN_Foote lab. Great work @acorn_connor! [📷 J. Foote.]

Getting up early to record birds singing is a pretty great job!

I am really happy for the birds that are arriving extremely early from far off places despite not knowing spring was early here in Northern Ontario. This should be good for reproductive success. I am, however, scrambling, exhausted, and forced to rapidly get into shape.

A chipping sparrow just landed on my deck furniture less than 0.5m away from my face. I was sitting on my backyard couch. I guess I am so tired from walking around the forest that I seem to be furniture too.

Apparently, there are rewards for 12 hour days at the start of the field season. Happy to collect this one just before it started to rain.

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We're celebrating Connor Acorn who has just received a Student Discovery Award from the Society of Canadian Ornithologists in support of his field studies of song in Ovenbirds. Congratulations @acorn_connor! Thank you for supporting students @SCO_SOC.