I figure if the work had gotten to me I would have gotten sick way before now. But we never can know for sure. I will get religious about washing my hands after banding and not snacking during the banding process, just in case. I think Kelly had flu-like symptoms, while I just had a bad case of vertigo. It's something I've had several times before I ever started handling hummers. The hummers do winter in tropical places and according to my Nurse Practitioner, birds carry a host of bad stuff. And viruses can cause vertigo. They also can affect different people differently. So.....
Here are a couple of photos of Kelly doing a banding demonstration during the last session at CDRI.
(That's Kelly wearing the cap)
And a photo of me retrieving a hummer. I took it from the trap and am putting it in a bag to await banding, then release.
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