Songbirds get their leg bands at Mead's Quarry on Sunday, the last banding morning listed
The Ijams Park community science team catches, measures, bands and releases songbirds in front of whoever shows up. Five dollars puts you at the table, and the ticket covers parking.
- When
- Sun Oct 4 · 8–9:30 AM
- Where
- Mead's Quarry · 3526 Island Home Ave
- Cost
- $5 · parking included, so don't pay at the lot
- Finding it
- Staff in the gravel lot walk you to the station, about five minutes
- Weather
- Showers Sunday morning (80%) · cloudy · high 78
- Waiver
- One release per calendar year
- Questions
- publicprograms@ijams.org
Bird banding is the rare science you can watch from three feet away. On Sunday morning the Ijams Park community science team works its banding station near Mead's Quarry, where migratory and resident songbirds are safely caught, measured, fitted with a numbered leg band and let go. The numbers feed a long record of how the birds around the park are doing. The event page lists Sunday as the last available date.
It costs five dollars, and the ticket includes parking, so skip the pay station. Meet at the Mead's Quarry gravel lot, where a staff member walks the group to the station. Sunday has showers through the morning and an 80 percent chance of rain, so check the event page before you drive over.
