Tuesday, November 29, 2016

29 November 2016

CAPTAIN SAM'S

The morning started out with me sitting in the truck on the beach from about 6:00-7:15 am waiting for the rain showers to move through.  Because of the strong south winds I decided to not open the 4 "dune" nets, net #21, and net #30.  The rest of the nets were, surprisingly, not that affected by the wind.

Bird activity was extremely slow this morning.  In fact, for the first 2.5 hours, I did not catch a single bird in any of the 20 nets that I had opened.  Finally, around 11:00 am I netted the first of only 7 birds captured this morning. For a while, I really thought that today was going to be the first time I have ever been skunked during a day of banding.  Fortunately, the last two net round of the morning produced 2 new birds and 5 recaptures of 5 different species.

The strong winds are going to continue into tomorrow but the threat of rain has diminished so I should be able to open on time tomorrow morning.

-Aaron  

 SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Gray Catbird
-
1
-
-
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
2
1
-
-
Eastern Towhee
-
1
-
-
Swamp Sparrow
-
1
-
-
Northern Cardinal
-
1
-
-









 Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
2
-
2
# of Recaptures
5
-
5
# of Species
5
-
5
Effort (net-hours)
78.0
-
78.0
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
9.0
-
9.0
# of Nets
20
-
20


Banding Staff
Aaron Given (CS)