Fluttering about, dashing down to grab bugs, caught in a net, panic ensues; that’s what happens to birds at Big Bald. Last Thursday, I went on a bird banding expedition. Since I am an eighth grader, I have been on it for three years in a row. I have banded many birds for educational reasons. Bird banding is not only educational but it is also enjoyable. The Key Middle School went to Big Bald, which is a mountain on the state line of North Carolina and Tennessee. On Big Bald there is a bird banding station; there they capture birds in nets that they set out and once they have caught them, they bring them to a tent. At the station; they put a mini metal band on one of the captured birds’ legs’. That band has a number on it, and the ornithologists
