A Veery early Veery

 Captain Sam's:

We continued to catch a decent number of migrants for mid-late August today with 33 new birds and 10 recaptures of 18 different species.  It appears that this will mostly likely come to an end for at least the next several days.  There is a high pressure system sitting over the eastern half of the US which will keep us hot and humid.  Along with that, we will likely see a wind shift to more of an easterly direction.  For the last few days, we have had winds predominately out of the west and southwest.  These westerly winds help to push migrant to the coast.  Alternatively, easterly winds push birds away from the coast and away from us.  

Highlights from today included 3 more first-of-the-seasons:  Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Wood-Pewee, and Veery.  Since 2009, we have banded 193 Veeries.  Today's bird is the earliest date that we have ever captured one.  We have only had two other August records both occurring in 2012 on 8/30 and 8/31.  Peak migration for Veeries occur during mid to late September with birds mainly arriving in early September.  By the end of October, most Veeries have reached their wintering grounds in South America.    

KIBS Banding Data 2012-2019

         

Veery (after hatch-year, sex unknown)

Little Bear:

Our luck with overcast, cloudy days ended today as it was hot and sunny, so we didn't get as many hours of banding in as we would have liked. But we still managed to catch another first-of-season species for the Little Bear station: Common Yellowthroat! We caught two hatch-year birds that were rather plain and dull. No black face-mask feathers were growing in on either bird, so we were unable to definitively sex them as either male or female. I'm excited to catch (many!) more of these sneaky warblers as the season goes on, and learn all about their molt strategies, and personalities.

Hatch-year Common Yellowthroat
Photo by Kandace Glanville

-Kandace

Species	Captain Sam's		Little Bear
	New	Recaps	New	Recaps
Downy Woodpecker	-	1	-	-
Eastern Wood-pewee	-	-	-	-
Acadian Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
Great-crested Flycatcher	1	-	-	-
White-eyed Vireo	-	-	1	-
Red-eyed Vireo	8	-	1	-
Carolina Wren	-	1	1	2
Brown Thrasher	-	1	-	-
Northern Mockingbird	2	-	-	-
Veery	1	-	-	-
Yellow-breasted Chat	-	1	-	-
Ovenbird	2	1	1	-
Northern Waterthrush	1	-	1	-
Black-and-white Warbler	1	-	-	-
Prothonotary Warbler	2	-	-	-
Common Yellowthroat	1	-	2	-
American Redstart	5	-	2	-
Yellow Warbler	-	-	1	-
Prairie Warbler	4	1	3	-
Northern Cardinal	-	-	1	1
Painted Bunting	3	4	-	-

Today's Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	33	14	47
# of Recaptures	10	3	13
# of Species	14	10	21
Effort (net-hours)	142.5	87.4	229.9
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	30.2	19.5	26.1
# of Nets	30	23	53

2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats	Captain Sam's	Little Bear	TOTAL
# Birds Banded	189	94	283
# of Recaptures	51	11	62
# of Species	31	23	38
Effort (net-hours)	1164	468	1632
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)	20.6	22.4	21.1
# of Days	9	4	-

Banding Staff

Aaron Given (CS)

Kristin Attinger (CS)

Ben Stalheim (CS)

Nate Watkins (CS)

Kandace Glanville (LB)

Josh Lefever (LB)