Friday, August 20, 2021

Whip Whip Hooray

 Captain Sam's:

Another clear day of weather allowed us a solid morning of banding. While we were split up opening nets pre-sunrise, all 5 of us separately heard an Eastern Whip-poor-will singing. We re-convened at the banding station and were discussing how we were all hoping it would fly into a net. Out for the first net run of the morning, Nate was the lucky one who got to extract it from net #12. A first-of-season, and an exciting bird for all of us to see in the hand!

After Hatch-Year male Eastern Whip-poor-will
Photo by Kandace Glanville


The first net run was busy, but it began to slow down after a while. Though we were still catching a steady stream of Red-eyed Vireos throughout the morning, and we had 2 more first-of-season species: Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Traill's Flycatcher!

We're planning to open the Little Bear site tomorrow, so here's hoping we have a good first morning of banding out there!

-Kandace


  Species  Captain Sam'sLittle Bear
NewRecapsNewRecaps
Eastern Whip-poor-will
1---
Traill's Flycatcher
2---
Red-eyed Vireo
8---
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1---
Carolina Wren
-2--
Northern Waterthrush
2---
American Redstart
4---
Prairie Warbler
2---
Painted Bunting
1
2--



Today's Banding StatsCaptain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
21
-
21
# of Recaptures
4
-
4
# of Species
9
-
9
Effort (net-hours)
135.0
-
135.0
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
18.5
-
18.5
# of Nets
30
-
30


2021 Fall Cumulative Banding Stats Captain Sam'sLittle BearTOTAL
# Birds Banded
83
-
83
# of Recaptures
28
-
28
# of Species
20
-
20
Effort (net-hours)
688.50
-
688.50
Capture Rate (birds/100 net-hours)
16.1
-
16.1
# of Days6-6

Banding Staff

Aaron Given
Ben Stalheim
Kandace Glanville
Nate Watkins
Josh Lefever



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