They’re careful to whisper and avoid eye contact with the occupants of a nest near the top of a nearby slash pine. Kent and the others work quickly, assembling a camouflaged blind and aluminum poles, then stretching a billboard-size, gossamer net across a road overgrown with sawgrass. And with the sun now skimming the tops of the pines here in northern Florida’s Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, the team is burning daylight. It’s late May, and she knows there won’t be many more chances to catch and tag a bird this breeding season. Still, having been skunked four times in a row, her optimism is tempered with a bit more caution than usual. It’s a trap day, and biologist Gina Kent greets this one like she does any other, with an energy and brightness that’s hard to match at this early hour.
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