Saturday, August 15, 2015

First Day of the Season

The first day of the season was rather slow compared to previous years.  We only had  26 new birds and 2 recaptures of 7 different species.  It was actually a fairly typical mid-August banding session though.  Most of the birds captured were juveniles (hatch-years) and represented local breeding species.  We did see an American Redstart flitting through the trees near net # 15 but she was able avoid the nets.

NEW BIRDS
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
4 Carolina Chickadee
4 Carolina Wren
2 Prairie Warbler
6 Northern Cardinal
8 Painted Bunting

RECAPTURES
2 Carolina Wren

BANDING STATS
# of New Birds:  26
# of Recaptures:  2
# of Species: 7
Effort: 76.5 net-hours
Capture Rate:  36.6 birds/100 net-hours
# of Nets:  15

BANDING STAFF
Aaron Given
Ryan Donnelly