Tuesday, September 18, 2018

FOS White-eyed Vireo and Cape May Warbler

Captain Sam's

After closing down the station last week to prepare for Hurricane Florence, we were finally able to resume banding again today. It seems like Florence brought us a few good birds as we banded a total of 31 birds and had 2 recaptures, for a total of 14 species. Both stations received our first of season White-eyed Vireos, including both a hatch year and adult at Captain Sam's. While hatch-year White-eyed Vireos have a darker, greyish colored eye, adults have a very distinct, bright white eye, which is, of course, how they got their name. Another highlight for the day for me was a Yellow-breasted Chat. Since I had never banded one of these beautiful birds before, I was very excited to process this after-hatch-year female!

Adult (left) and Hatch-year (right) White-eyed Vireos

After-hatch-year female Yellow-breasted Chat

-DanaƩ

Little Bear

We finally were able to get back to banding this morning. While heading out to the station, we were given a light show with all the offshore thunderstorms that had just passed over the station just in time to open. Bobolinks were flying over low, pushed down by the thunderstorms, and I was hoping we would catch one with no such luck. We did have a pretty good morning though with 30 new birds and 8 recaptures of 12 species, which is the best day at Little Bear so far this season. We added two first-of-the-season species, a White-eyed Vireo and a gorgeous adult male Cape May Warbler (pictured below). Hopefully today was a sign of things starting to pick up!

Cape May Warbler (after-hatch-year, male)
-Michael


SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Downy Woodpecker
1
-
-
-
"Traill's" Flycatcher
1
-
3
-
White-eyed Vireo
3
-
5
-
Red-eyed Vireo
6
-
4
-
Carolina Chickadee
-
-
-
2
Carolina Wren
-
-
1
5
Northern Mockingbird
2
-
-
-
Eastern Towhee
1
-
-
-
Yellow-breasted Chat
1
-
-
-
Ovenbird
2
-
-
-
Northern Waterthrush
-
-
1
-
Common Yellowthroat
2
-
5
-
American Redstart
1
-
-
-
Cape May Warbler
-
-
1
-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
2
-
1
-
Prairie Warbler
4
-
2
-
Northern Cardinal
-
1
1
-
Painted Bunting
5
1
6
1



Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
31
30
61
# of Recaptures
2
8
10
# of Species
14
12
18
Effort (net-hours)
95.76
58.0
153.8
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
34.5
65.5
46.2
# of Nets
28
20
48


2018 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
417
221
638
# of Recaptures
152
59
211
# of Species
34
23
38
Effort (net-hours)
3269.4
1132.65
4402.05
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
17.4
24.7
19.3
# of Days2720-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Michael Gamble (LB)
Meredith Heather (CS)
DanaĆ© Mouton (CS)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Joel Throckmorton (LB)