Sunday, October 6, 2019

Radar Ninjas

Captain Sam's:
We had a very unexpected big day at Captain Sam's with 286 new birds banded, a season high for the site! We were so busy we didn't have time to take many pictures. A highlight for me was a hatch-year Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a life bird for me!

Little Bear:

The migration forecast led us to believe that it would be a more moderate day at Little Bear. However, it ended up being an excellent day for banding! We caught so many birds on our first net run, that we started to let some birds go at the net. After collecting 102 birds on that first run, we closed all of the nets so that we could catch up. We didn't re-open until 11:30, and by then things had calmed down quite a bit.

We caught the first Gray-cheeked Thrush of the season for Little Bear. We must have interrupted it's breakfast because it still had some berry juice smeared on its bill.

HY Gray-cheeked Thrush (Photo: Josh Lefever)

HY Gray-cheeked Thrush (Photo: Josh Lefever)

We also processed a very striking after hatch year, male Cape May Warbler:

AHY, male Cape May Warbler (Photo: Josh Lefever)

AHY, male Cape May Warbler (Photo: Josh Lefever)

 Another highlight of the day for me, was this very handsome (and very fat) hatch year, male Northern Parula:

HY, male Northern Parula with a fat score of 5
I'm really looking forward to what the rest of October brings!

--Beth

  SpeciesCaptain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1
-
-
-
Traill's Flycatcher
-
-
1
-
White-eyed Vireo
1
1
-
-
Red-eyed Vireo
10
-
1
-
House Wren
2
1
1
-
Veery
1
-
-
-
Gray Catbird
58
3
18
-
Gray-cheeked Thrush
-
-
1
-
Eastern Towhee
-
-
-
1
Ovenbird
1
-
-
-
Northern Waterthrush
1
1
-
-
Black-and-white Warbler
2
-
-
-
Common Yellowthroat
172
-
58
-
American Redstart
18
-
4
-
Cape May Warbler
3
-
2
-
Northern Parula
2
-
2
-
Magnolia Warbler
-
-
2
-
Yellow Warbler
1
-
2
-
Black-throated Blue Warbler
3
-
2
-
Palm Warbler6-5-
Prairie Warbler1-1-
Northern Cardinal---1
Indigo Bunting2-2-
Painted Bunting1-1-


Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
286
103
389
# of Recaptures
6
2
8
# of Species
19
18
24
Effort (net-hours)
175.9
46.25
222.15
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
166
227
178.7
# of Nets
27
20
47



2019 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
1,997
1,147
3,144
# of Recaptures
375
173
548
# of Species
55
51
66
Effort (net-hours)
5,826.45
2,187.05
8,013.5
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
40.7
60.4
46.1
# of Days4635-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)
Kristin Attinger (CS)
Dan Errichetti (CS)
Arcata Leavitt (CS)
Josh Lefever (LB)
Dave Sandahl (LB) 
Bethany Darby (LB)

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