Monday, August 18, 2014

18 August 2014

Much slower day today with only 16 new birds and 2 recaptures.  It looks like this trend may continue for a while.  Painted Buntings and Prairie Warblers are the predominate species right now.  Most of the Prairie Warblers are full of fat and on-the-go.  While the Painted Buntings still have to start and/or finish their prebasic molt, so they will be with us for a while longer.  The highlight today was a first-of-the-season Brown Thrasher.

-Aaron

NEW BIRDS
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Brown Thrasher
5 Prairie Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Prothonotary Warbler
7 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
1 Carolina Wren
1 Painted Bunting

BANDING STATS
# of Birds Banded:  16
# of Recaptures:  2
# of Species:  7
Effort:  120.0 net-hours
Capture Rate:  15.0 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  20

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Mattie VandenBoom
Libby Natola