Saturday, October 11, 2014

October 11, 2014

It was a little on the slow side today at the banding station with 41 new birds and 25 recaptures of 16 different species.  We expect the next few days to have similar numbers with our next big movement of birds to occur during the middle of next week.  However, we ended our day with this lovely Northern Parula.    
Northern Parula (HY, Male)


New Birds

1 Red-eyed Vireo

1 House Wren

1 Carolina Chickadee 

24 Gray Catbird

1 Ovenbird

3 Common Yellowthroat 

1 American Redstart

1 Northern Parula

1 Magnolia Warbler

3 Northern Cardinal

1 Indigo Bunting 

3 Painted Bunting



Recaptures

1 Common Ground-Dove

1 Downey Woodpecker 

1 White-eyed Vireo

1 House Wren

1 Carolina Chickadee

15 Gray Catbird

4 Common Yellowthroat 

1 Black and White Warbler



BANDING STATS
# of New Birds: 41
# of Recaptures: 25
# of Species: 16
Effort: 128.3 net-hours
Capture Rate: 51.4 birds/100 net-hours

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola
William Oakley
Matt Zak

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