My morning was spent making observations at the Brunswick Town State Historic Site (BTSHS) feeder.  It was a pretty slow day for observations.  After completing my observation session, I returned to the BTSHS visitor center and spoke to Jim, an employee, about the PB feeder needing to be refilled.  It wasn’t empty, but the seed was getting low.  He showed me where the seed was being kept, so I took the bag of seed back over to the feeder and refilled it.  It had gotten just low enough that the top ports were empty and only the lower ports had seed in them.  I’m not sure if this made a difference in the amount of birds observed for the morning.  In the evening, I attended a banding session at a private residence on Seaview Road, which is located off of Myrtle Grove Road.  We had 11 new captures and many were "hatch year" birds, meaning they had just hatched this season.  We had only one recapture from last year and no adult males were caught.  One male Painted Bunting sang for us over in the scrubby edge of the salt marsh, but he never ventured into our view.  We did get a close-up look at a Great Crested Flycatcher that sat on a limb next to the deck. He seemed to be posing for us with his crest up.  An unexpected view of an adult Clapper Rail and her fluffy black chicks crossing the marsh was actually the top excitement of my day.  We had heard her call, quite loudly, just a short while before she and the chicks came out of the marsh grasses onto a tidal mudflat.  I was able to take a couple of quick photos, but they are grainy due to the 1600 ISO used because of the low light conditions.  Dr. R identified one of our female Painted Buntings as having an egg in her abdomen.  He pointed out the definite rounding of her lower abdomen and after taking measurements and banding her, quickly let her go.  It was one of the more exciting banding sessions, in part because I was the only intern present.