September 2, 2014

We had another slow morning with only 11 new birds, and 5 recaptures, totaling 16 birds from 8 species. However, we did catch our first Yellow-billed cuckoo of the season! 

The cuckoo we caught was a hatch year bird. We could tell its age by its yellow orbital ring (see photo below). As these birds age the orbital ring changes from yellow to gray, which is how we differentiate between hatch year and after hatch year birds. 

NEW BIRDS

1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

1 Red-eyed Vireo

1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

1 Northern Waterthrush

4 Common Yellowthroat

1 Northern Cardinal

2 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES

2 Carolina Chickadee 

1 Northern Cardinal

2 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS

# of Birds Banded:  11

# of Recaptures:  5

# of Species:  8

Effort:  104.0 net-hours

Capture Rate:  15.4 birds/100 net-hours

# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF

Aaron Given

Mattie VandenBoom

Libby Natola

Will Oakley