Sunday, September 8, 2013

Typical Early September Banding

We banded 17 new birds and had 12 recaptures of 13 different species.  Unlike most mornings bird activity seemed to increase after 9:00am.  Usually, the first two hours after sunrise are the most productive but not today.  There was a pretty good "dew load"  on the vegetation this morning making everything wet.  Maybe the birds were waiting to things to dry out a bit before they started foraging for food.

- Aaron      

NEW BIRDS
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 "Traill's" Flycatcher
4 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Prothonotary Warbler
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Common Yellowthroat
1 American Redstart
4 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Common Ground-Dove
3 White-eyed Vireo
1 Veery
2 Northern Mockingbird
2 Common Yellowthroat
3 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded:  17
# of Recaptures:  12
# of Species:  13
Effort:  100.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  29.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20