Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary is fortunate to have a group of six bird banders who assist with winter and breeding season songbird banding, some since we started in 1999.  In October, these dedicated and passionate volunteers met with Starr staff to discuss our banding station needs and offered to make or purchase equipment and supplies.  Some are sewing bird bags used for holding birds for ageing, sexing, and banding before release.  Others are purchasing supplies to renew banding infrastructure.  And the owner of a Wild Birds Unlimited shop in Yorba Linda, Valerie Sinex, another bander, donated funds to buy new nets.  These banders were trained during workshops held at Starr Ranch to do the technical observations that the Institute for Bird Populations requires to analyze trends in songbird populations to protect birds on migration and wintering sites as well as breeding areas. We thank Al and Janet Baumann, Barbara Bruce, Debbie Gley, Carol Paquette, and Tom Sheffield.  Also pictured are 2015-16 ornithologist Alison Nevins and Dana Kamada, who was the ornithologist who started the MAPS breeding season banding station at Starr Ranch with Sandy in 1999.