Thursday's Results: Happy Thanksgiving

Yes, we even band birds on Thanksgiving.  We were forced to shut down early because of the wind but still managed to get in about 4 hours of banding.  We banded 31 new birds and had 4 recaptures of 5 different species. 

 

NEW BIRDS

1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

24 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)

4 Song Sparrow

2 Swamp Sparrow

 

RECAPTURES

1 Gray Catbird

3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - I return from 11/13/11.

 

BANDING STATS

# of Banded Birds:  31

# of Recaptures:  4

# of Species:  5

Effort:  57.0 net-hours

Capture Rate:  61.4 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  17 (6 nets were shut down after a couple of hours)