10/29/15

Captain Sam's

Well, it was not as good as I was hoping but we banded 34 new birds and had 12 recaptures of 13 different species.   It was nice to still see some neotropical warblers moving through such as Northern Waterthrush, Northern Parula, and Cape May Warbler.  

Little Bear 

Although the rain has cleared away, our return to Little Bear was still pretty wet, with 11 of our 16 net lanes flooded.  The birds did not seem to mind the flooding, as we ended up having a good morning with 62 new birds and 10 recaptures, comprised of 17 species.  Highlights included not one but two more Yellow-billed Cuckoos which brings our season total up to 9.  We also banded our fifth Orange-crowned Warbler of the season.  

-Mattie

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	-	-	2	-
Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe	1 -	- -	- 2	- -
Carolina Chickadee	-	-	-	1
House Wren	1	-	-	2
Marsh Wren	-	-	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	-	1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	4	-	-	-
Hermit Thrush	1	-	-	-
Gray Catbird	16	10	26	2
Northern Waterthrush	1	-	-	-
Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Parula	- 1	- -	1 -	- -
Common Yellowthroat	-	-	3	1
Cape May Warbler	1	-	-	-
Black-throated Blue Warbler	-	-	1	-
Palm Warbler (Western)	-	-	1	-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	8	-	16	1
Prairie Warbler	-	-	2	-
Song Sparrow	-	-	1	-
Swamp Sparrow	1	-	1	-
Northern Cardinal	1	1	1	1
Indigo Bunting	-	-	1	-
Painted Bunting	1	-	3	-

Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	34	62	96
# of Recaptures	12	9	22
# of Species	13	17	24
Effort (net-hours)	131.25	80.0	211.25
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	35.1	88.75	55.9
Nets	25	16	41

Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)
Mattie VandenBoom (LB)
Chris Snook (LB)
Nancy Raginski (CS)
Sean McElaney (CS)
Casey Weissburg (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Ryan Donnelly (LB)